• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It was only a matter of time before most of humanity got wiped out by a virulent disease. I just thought it would take a good year or two.

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          3 days ago

          Only because rich countries don’t provide poor countries with antibiotics needed to fight it.

          TB is a bacterial infection. It is easily diagnosed and treated with even substandard attention from a doctor.

          The fact that it’s spreading so rapidly in America is highly concerning not because TB is super infectious, but because it’s so easy to treat and prevent.