Tuberculosis Cases Have Been Steadily Rising In The UK – So Why Aren't We Talking About It?

In his new book Everything Is Tuberculosis, author and health educator John Green writes: “What’s different now from 1804 or 1904 is that tuberculosis is curable, and has been since the mid-1950s. We know how to live in a world without tuberculosis.

“But we choose not to live in that world.”

On their website, the global health and tuberculosis experts at Partners In Health write: “Each year, tuberculosis (TB) kills about 1.3 million people worldwide—that’s more deaths than HIV/AIDS and malaria combined.