The world’s deadliest infectious disease is on the rise in the US
Sean Pepito2026-03-25T11:23:27-05:00We discovered its cause 144 years ago. It’s still a massive problem. TB is presented not as a new threat, but as a resurgent one. Despite our efforts, tuberculosis never truly disappeared; instead, after decades of decline, it is now rising again in the US and other first world countries. In the US, rates had been falling for about 30 years, but recent cases in San Francisco, Long Island, Seattle, and a major Kansas outbreak show that TB is reappearing in places many people would not expect. A major reason for this “return” is that TB often comes back through latent [...]



