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COVID-19 No Longer the Leading Cause of Death from Infectious Diseases (gizn.org)

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anakin-padme-2 It's because Covid is going away, right? Herd immunity is working?

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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 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

From

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

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

[-] Edie@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

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 17 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Hexboare@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

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

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

If you don't test... doomjak

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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 11 points 2 months ago

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

[-] dat_math@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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 13 points 2 months ago

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

[-] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago

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

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months 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.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[-] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Theres been an increase in cases in the USA, too, and news articles like this blame refugees.

But then if you look at the latest CDC report:

During 2023, tuberculosis case counts increased among all age groups, among U.S-born and non-U.S.–born persons, and in most reporting jurisdictions. Overall, cases increased from 8,320 in 2022 to 9,615 in 2023, an increase of 1,295 cases. The rate also increased from 2.5 per 100,000 persons in 2022 to 2.9 in 2023.

Still relatively low, but a bad sign.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

rat-salute-2

[-] dat_math@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

So excess deaths diminished concomitantly right?

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right?

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

wtf

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

just in time for election season vote

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

Ah yes. Of course.

[-] Hexboare@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

Global funding for TB prevention and care decreased further in 2023 and remains far below target. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), which bear 98% of the TB burden, faced significant funding shortages. Only US$ 5.7 billion of the US$ 22 billion annual funding target was available in 2023, equivalent to only 26% of the global target.

A significant number of new TB cases are driven by 5 major risk factors: undernutrition, HIV infection, alcohol use disorders, smoking (especially among men), and diabetes. Tackling these issues, along with critical determinants like poverty and GDP per capita, requires coordinated multisectoral action

Covid, capitalism

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