The World Health Organization (WHO) globally reports that the tuberculosis virus is the 13th leading Source of death globally and “the second leading infectious killer after COVID-19”.
The WHO estimates that in 2020, nearly 10 million people worldwide developed TB and 1.5 million people died from the disease, including 214,000 people who also had HIV.
A majority of the people affected were in Asia. However, TB remains a matter of concern in many other areas, including the United States. The same year, doctors reported 7,174 cases of TB in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).