At least 2 billion people in the world are infected with mycobacteria of tuberculosis. Three researchers call it nonsense

Hidden threat

About a quarter of the world's population is infected with tuberculosis bacteria, says WHO. Tuberculosis, which is called The greatest infectious murderer in the world, with whom only the Covid-19 can compete, causes Mycobacterium Tuberculosis mycobacterium.

In 2022, the number of people with tuberculosis reached 10.6 million people around the world (55% of men, 33% of women and 12% of children under 15 years old). Most patients are in Africa (23%), Southeast Asia (46%) and the western part of the Pacific (18%). Last year, 1.3 million people died from illness.

It is traditionally believed that the special insidiousness of Koch’s sticks is that having come into the body, it can be hidden there for years or even decades before a full -scale disease suddenly begins. The French and German pathologists, having described the characteristic changes in the lungs in those who did not suffer from tuberculosis to death, introduced the term “latent phthisis” (as tuberculosis was then called) back in the 19th century.

The French doctor and pathologist Pierre-Sharl Alexander Louis , known for his studies of tuberculosis, devoted almost four dozen pages of his treatise in 1825 to this issue; A little later, his contemporary, the founder of clinical and anatomical diagnostics and the inventor of Stetoscope Rene Laennek , wrote about the “hidden consumption”.

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