One-quarter of the World’s population is infected with Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (TB), and in 2021 some 10.6 million people became sick with TB disease. It was an increase of 4.5% in 2020, until 2021 TB was the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent and now falls to second behind COVID-19.
The county proclaimed March 24 as World TB Day.
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