ABOUT TB
- More people die from TB than from any other curable infectious disease in the world.
- Every second someone in the world is infected with TB.
- Every minute someone dies from TB.
- Every day 25 000 people develop active TB and 5000 die of the disease.
- TB costs the world an estimated US$12 billion.
- One person with infectious TB infects between 10 and 15 people on average in one year.