Global burden of tuberculosis

In 2011, nearly 9 million people fell ill from TB and 1.4 million died, mostly in poor countries, with 60% of cases in Asia and 24% in Africa (Fig. 1).

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The biggest killer

Tuberculosis has killed more than any other infectious disease in history. Over a billion lives in the past two hundred years (Fig. 2).

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The 100 years battle

Rising living standards in industrialized nations, interrupted by two World wars, and new antibiotics had tuberculosis in decline (Fig. 3).

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Slow progress

Over the past fifteen years, an invigorated anti-TB effort has begun to reduce the global burden of disease worsened by HIV (Fig. 4).

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The transmission cycle

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