Tuberculosis once again top killer among world's infectious diseases

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In the highest tally ever recorded for tuberculosis cases, the World Health Organization reported Tuesday that over 8 million people worldwide were diagnosed with the lung disease last year. Of that number, 1.25 million people died of TB, the new report found, meaning that it is once again the leading cause of deaths from infectious disease after COVID-19 displaced it briefly during the pandemic. Advertisement "The fact that TB still kills and sickens so many people is an outrage, when we have

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