Its been around for millions of years but because it is slow it doesn’t ever get press coverage
That’s because of where those deaths are. I’ve seen 2 cases of active TB working in hospitals in the US in almost 20 years. Both from new immigrants. Sadly it’s “mostly” a third world illness.
“I’ve seen two cases of active TB while working in hospitals in a developing country”
Yeah that makes sense too
I see you watched the newest Kurzgesagt video
And it’s great, as usual!
Somebody watched the new Kurzgesagt video.
Unfortunately, nobody cares about third worlders. You can treat tuberculosis with antibiotics, which doesn’t help if they have none or are too poor.
It’s the same with refugees, hundreds drown in the sea and nobody cares, but if some billionaires disappear in a submarine on their way to titanic, millions are spent in an international collaboration trying to rescue their corpses.
The flu averages like 700K deaths every year forever
We can treat and cure TB. But capitalists don’t want to spend the money when it’s not profitable.
It’s cheap to treat TB. You are ignoring the fact that the medical systems in many of these countries do not pay enough doctors or buy enough medicine for their citizens. People die of malnutrition too. That’s prevented by eating.
Are these “the capitalists” in the room with you right now? JFC dude, the capitalist countries you’re complaining about are also the ones with the lowest TB mortality. Not everything bad is because of “the capitalists.”
https://assets.ourworldindata.org/grapher/exports/tuberculosis-deaths.png
