Tuberculosis has earned the undesirable distinction of being the world's top infectious disease killer — a mantle it took back from COVID in 2023. TB claimed the lives of 1.23 million people in 2024 ...

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Tuberculosis is the world's deadliest infectious disease. One-point-two million people died of TB in 2024, that according to official numbers, plus 10 million get sick from it each year. But as NPR's ...