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Tuberculosis (TB) has had an incredibly large impact on human history. One staggering statistic? It’s been estimated that by the start of the 1800s, the disease had killed one in seven people who had ...

EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, by John Green Tuberculosis kills more people — over a million a year worldwide — than any other infectious ...

Each year, tuberculosis kills some 1.25 million people globally and more than 10 times that number become infected with the disease annually, according to the World Health Organization.