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COVID-19 No Longer the Leading Cause of Death from Infectious Diseases (gizn.org)

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anakin-padme-2 It's because Covid is going away, right? Herd immunity is working?

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The World Health Organization (WHO) today published a new report on tuberculosis revealing that approximately 8.2 million people were newly diagnosed with TB in 2023 – the highest number recorded since WHO began global TB monitoring in 1995. This represents a notable increase from 7.5 million reported in 2022, placing TB again as the leading infectious disease killer in 2023, surpassing COVID-19

There is plenty of evidence covid attacks the immune system, and reactivated TB is common with people who have AIDS. Could all just be a wierd coincidence and TB just does that sometimes.

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My mom recently had TB. Hearing her cough like that... :sadness:
She's fine now, so no worries

[-] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

From

https://icemsg.org/2024/07/14/2024-week-26-27/

Note the date. This is the bad news I've been waiting for.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

I really hope the author of that website one day realize the reason why "Those who have the power to make decisions to protect the public and fail to do so"

[-] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

yea they are very Lib. I check them out on Twitter for studies they repost but the rest ain't great.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Note the date

the date of the article or the date of the recent relative minimum of the % change in YOY TB cases?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

The date of the article. I've been watching for updated Tuberculosis news since. I mean, it coulda gone down, right? doomer

[-] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

mission-accomplished-1 covid-cool mission-accomplished-2

[-] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

Oh? Oh. Oh, no. That's horrible news. That's the really bad, no good news. That's the i'm not being an alarmist, shit really is hitting the fan because we're killing herd immunity news.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I would like to get off of mr bones wild ride

mother-jones

The Scotland thing is 200 cases going to 283 cases, which is always the important thing in "x increased by y" and they note it may be due to refugees arriving with tb rather than an increase in local spread.

I'd also like to know where those tb cases are from and if they're geographically clustered. Immune depletion from Covid may well be a factor, but I'd like to know if it correlates with war, famine, or other major disruptions to public health symptoms. As the scotland article notes, being a refugee, living in bad conditions in a camp and having bad or no medical care, is a significant factor in the spread of illnesses, espcially things like tb that thrive in close living conditions.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Theres been an increase in cases in the USA, too, and news articles like this blame refugees.

But then if you look at the latest CDC report:

During 2023, tuberculosis case counts increased among all age groups, among U.S-born and non-U.S.–born persons, and in most reporting jurisdictions. Overall, cases increased from 8,320 in 2022 to 9,615 in 2023, an increase of 1,295 cases. The rate also increased from 2.5 per 100,000 persons in 2022 to 2.9 in 2023.

Still relatively low, but a bad sign.