COVID-19 is still very much the topic of conversation when it comes to infectious diseases, but when it comes to lethality, the coronavirus no longer leads the pack.
Instead, it’s tuberculosis that has once again become the world’s most deadly infectious disease. A World Health Organization report this week shows 10.8 million people became sick with TB last year (with 8.2 million people being newly diagnosed). Roughly 1.25 million of those people died because of the disease.
