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  2. List of human disease case fatality rates - Wikipedia

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    Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.

  3. Post-tuberculosis lung disease - Wikipedia

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    Aspergilloma in an old tuberculosis cavity; healed, calcified tuberculous lesions are also present towards the right of the image Healed tuberculous cavity, where the entire left lung is destroyed. Post-tuberculosis lung disease (PTLD) is ongoing lung disease that is caused by tuberculosis (TB) but persists after the infection is cured. [1]

  4. Tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. [1] Most infections show no symptoms, in which case it is known as latent tuberculosis. [1] Around 10% of latent infections progress to active disease that, if left untreated, kill about half of those affected. [1]

  5. WHO: Tuberculosis cases rise for the first time in years - AOL

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    The U.N. health agency said more than 10 million people worldwide were sickened by tuberculosis in 2021, a 4.5% rise from the year before. WHO said about 450,000 cases involved people infected ...

  6. List of tuberculosis cases - Wikipedia

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    Edward VI (1537–1553), died of tuberculosis at age 15 during his short reign as King of England; Elizabeth of Austria (1436–1505), a study of her bones indicated that she probably had tuberculosis at a young age; Read Fletcher (c. 1829 –1889), American politician, lawyer, co-founder and editor of the Pine Bluff Graphic [10]

  7. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    The resurgence of tuberculosis in the United States, the advent of HIV-related tuberculosis, and the development of strains of TB resistant to the first-line therapies developed in recent decades serve to reinforce the thesis that Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative organism, makes its own preferential option for the poor. [66]

  8. Elimination of tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    According to a 2013 review, tuberculosis elimination will require not just treating active tuberculosis but also latent cases, and eliminating tuberculosis by 2050 worldwide is not possible, although great reductions in infections and deaths are possible. [3] Addressing poverty is a further requirement for eliminating tuberculosis.

  9. Americans Spend More Than 12 Years of Their Lives ... - AOL

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    Americans spend on average more than a dozen years per person suffering from disease — and have a greater “disease burden” than all other countries in the World Health Organization, a new ...