It’s because Covid is going away, right? Herd immunity is working?
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.
Related: TB cases in Scotland rise by 40% in ‘largest annual increase’ observed to date
My mom recently had TB. Hearing her cough like that… :sadness:
She’s fine now, so no worriesI would like to get off of mr bones wild ride
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.
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.
From
https://icemsg.org/2024/07/14/2024-week-26-27/
Note the date. This is the bad news I’ve been waiting for.
18·2 days agoI 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”
they are very Lib. I check them out on Twitter for studies they repost but the rest ain’t great.
Two cases per 100,000 is pretty good for country without a public health system
If you don’t test…
Hard to miss TB though. You cough bloody chunks of your lungs out and it spreads. Afaik most cases in the us are in our torture facility prisons.
Afaik tb is one of the diseases that still does get monitored to some extent.
Right, but not having public healthcare also ties in with a significant marginalized population that never sees doctors. Immigrant workers, spring to mind.
Note the date
the date of the article or the date of the recent relative minimum of the % change in YOY TB cases?
The date of the article. I’ve been watching for updated Tuberculosis news since. I mean, it coulda gone down, right?
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.
oh good, the white death
this is what happens when you wish for white genocide! ask for white death get white death, that’s basic science
Global funding for TB prevention and care decreased further in 2023 and remains far below target. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), which bear 98% of the TB burden, faced significant funding shortages. Only US$ 5.7 billion of the US$ 22 billion annual funding target was available in 2023, equivalent to only 26% of the global target.
A significant number of new TB cases are driven by 5 major risk factors: undernutrition, HIV infection, alcohol use disorders, smoking (especially among men), and diabetes. Tackling these issues, along with critical determinants like poverty and GDP per capita, requires coordinated multisectoral action
Covid, capitalism
So excess deaths diminished concomitantly right?
right?
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAwe’re fucked
just in time for election season
Ah yes. Of course.
I’m tired comrades
