Stopping the Looming Co-epidemic of Diabetes and Tuberculosis
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Tuberculosis is an airborne communicable disease caused by a bacterial infection. TB spreads when someone sick with the disease coughs or sneezes, expelling TB bacteria into the air, and someone else inhales them. Once infected, most people continue living normally without ever becoming sick. That’s because a healthy immune system won’t eliminate the TB germs from the body, but it will seal them away inside a tiny mass of immune cells. Most people are shocked to learn that by best estimates, one in three people worldwide—a full 2 billion people—are living with this kind of TB infection.
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