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Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, [7] is a contagious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria. [1] Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs , but it can also affect other parts of the body. [ 1 ]
Tuberculosis deaths in New York (state) (118 P) Tuberculosis deaths in North Carolina (7 P) Tuberculosis deaths in North Dakota (1 P) O. ... Statistics; Cookie statement;
In 2016, the WHO recorded 56.7 million deaths [3] with the leading cause of death as cardiovascular disease causing more than 17 million deaths (about 31% of the total) as shown in the chart to the side. In 2021, there were approx. 68 million deaths worldwide, as per WHO report.
A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has caused dozens of illnesses and at least two deaths, according to the state health department. Cases related to the ...
A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has become the largest documented TB outbreak in the United States since monitoring began in the 1950s, according to the ...
Tuberculosis deaths in the United States (4 C, 12 P) Tuberculosis deaths in Uruguay (2 P) Tuberculosis deaths in Uzbekistan (1 P) V. ... Statistics; Cookie statement;
U.S. tuberculosis cases reached their highest level in a decade in 2023, and this year, infections have shown up in schools in Pennsylvania and Las Vegas, and upticks have caused alarm in Chicago ...
[21] [22] According to the World Health Organization, approximately 10 million new TB infections occur every year, and 1.5 million people die from it each year – making it the world's top infectious killer (before COVID-19 pandemic). [21] However, there is a lack of sources which describe major TB epidemics with definite time spans and death ...