We Aren't Doing Enough to Stop TB

For most people in the West, TB seems to be a disease of the past, when it was still called consumption, and the ill were sent to sanitariums in the mountains or desert.

But TB hasn’t gone away. In 2015 the number of TB cases in the U.S. rose for the first time in 23 years. In 2014 more than 500 people died from TB in the U.S. Even so, a lot of people have no idea that TB is still found here, or what a major health risk it poses in other parts of the world.