RESPIRATORY
OLD TUBERCULOSIS
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2 billion people
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2 million people
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2 thousand people
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The population carrying a latent TB infection (LTBI) is commonly quoted as “one-third” of the global population, a reservoir of approximately 2.3 billion individuals [3–6].
Detailed explanation-2: -The reports showed about 20 percent of the world’s population has latent tuberculosis. This shocked many and terrified researchers around the world.
Detailed explanation-3: -TB is preventable and curable-yet it is the world’s second-deadliest infectious disease (behind COVID-19). An estimated 1.8 billion people-about a quarter of the world’s population-are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB.
Detailed explanation-4: -A Global Threat The World Health Organization estimates that 1.8 billion people-close to one quarter of the world’s population-are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), the bacteria that causes TB.
Detailed explanation-5: -Two billion people – one fourth of the world’s population – are infected with the TB bacteria, with more than 10 million becoming ill with active TB disease each year. In 2019, 1.2 million children fell ill with TB globally and 465, 000 people fell ill with drug-resistant TB. TB knows no borders.