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Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 01:30:01 JST Flipboard Science Desk

The ancient scourge of tuberculosis has reclaimed its title as the deadliest infectious disease. COVID-19 had eclipsed TB as the top killer but those numbers are now down.
“The fact that TB still kills and sickens so many people is an outrage, when we have the tools to prevent it, detect it and treat it,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general.
From @npr: https://flip.it/Tl.gSI
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1. TB reclaims title of deadliest infectious disease. That's an 'outrage' says WHO
  
  DIslodged by COVID early in the pandemic, tuberculosis is once again the infectious disease that takes the most lives each year. And the number of cases set a new record. What's going on?

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