Before COVID, TB was the world’s worst pathogen. It’s still a ‘monster’ killer

Health workers share information about tuberculosis with residents of aslum neighborhoods in New Delhi. India has the greatest number of TB cases in the world.

It was under control. And then it wasn’t. In her new book Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History, VIdya Krishnan shows how “we repeat the same disease-spreading mistakes over and over.”

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