Tuberculosis Is the Oldest Pandemic, and Poverty Makes It Continue

​TB Strikes the Poor 

These World Health Organization data show the pattern: Across the globe, poverty and tuberculosis go hand in hand.

In wealthy countries, rapid detection prevents spread, and effective drugs cure most cases.

But in poor and middle-income nations where crowded conditions foster disease and affordable treatment is hard to find, TB kills more than one million people every year.

출처: Nature (2022) 605:S16 – S20