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.

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[–] REgon@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My mom recently had TB. Hearing her cough like that... :sadness:
She's fine now, so no worries

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I would like to get off of mr bones wild ride

mother-jones

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.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

From

https://icemsg.org/2024/07/14/2024-week-26-27/

Note the date. This is the bad news I've been waiting for.

[–] dat_math@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Note the date

the date of the article or the date of the recent relative minimum of the % change in YOY TB cases?

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

The date of the article. I've been watching for updated Tuberculosis news since. I mean, it coulda gone down, right? doomer

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Two cases per 100,000 is pretty good for country without a public health system

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you don't test... doomjak

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Right, but not having public healthcare also ties in with a significant marginalized population that never sees doctors. Immigrant workers, spring to mind.

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I 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"

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

yea they are very Lib. I check them out on Twitter for studies they repost but the rest ain't great.

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

mission-accomplished-1 covid-cool mission-accomplished-2

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.