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In 2018, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death worldwide from a single infectious agent. [1] The total number of tuberculosis cases has been decreasing since 2005, while new cases have decreased since 2002. [78] Tuberculosis [clarification needed] incidence is seasonal, with peaks occurring every spring and summer.
In 2016, the WHO recorded 56.7 million deaths [3] with the leading cause of death as cardiovascular disease causing more than 17 million deaths (about 31% of the total) as shown in the chart to the side. In 2021, there were approx. 68 million deaths worldwide, as per WHO report. [4]
[21] [22] According to the World Health Organization, approximately 10 million new TB infections occur every year, and 1.5 million people die from it each year – making it the world's top infectious killer (before COVID-19 pandemic). [21] However, there is a lack of sources which describe major TB epidemics with definite time spans and death ...
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.
This category has the following 88 subcategories, out of 88 total. ... Tuberculosis deaths in the United States (4 C, 12 P) Tuberculosis deaths in Uruguay (2 P)
This year, 1 million new cases ... called for more funding so that global health officials could reach their goals to reduce TB deaths by 90 percent and TB cases by 80 percent by 2030 ...
In response to the resurgence of tuberculosis, the World Health Organization issued a declaration of a global health emergency in 1993. [128] Every year, nearly half a million new cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are estimated to occur worldwide.
In 2017, the Indian government announced its intention to eliminate tuberculosis in the country by 2025. The previous year, it accounted for 27 percent of tuberculosis cases and 29 percent of deaths worldwide, making it the highest burden country for both tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. [11] [12]