Photo Courtesy: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Statistics:
- In 2014, 1.5 million people died of TB-related disease and 9.6 million people around the world became sick with TB disease.
- A third of the worlds population is infected with TB.
- In the United States the number of TB cases are decreasing each year (see graph above).
- 66% of those diagnosed with TB in the United States are foreign born persons.
- TB is the number one killer of people with the HIV infection.