{"id":11711,"date":"2026-03-25T18:24:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11711"},"modified":"2026-03-25T18:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:24:07","slug":"tb-after-hopes-of-eradication-the-worlds-deadliest-infection-is-creeping-back-in-the-us-with-a-vengeance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/03\/25\/tb-after-hopes-of-eradication-the-worlds-deadliest-infection-is-creeping-back-in-the-us-with-a-vengeance\/","title":{"rendered":"TB: After Hopes Of Eradication, The World&#8217;s Deadliest Infection Is Creeping Back In The US With A Vengeance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/after-hopes-of-eradication-the-worlds-deadliest-infection-is-creeping-back-in-the-us-with-a-vengeance-82972\">IFL Science<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cases have been slowly rising in the US, the UK, and much of the world since 2021.  The world&#8217;s top infectious killer, tuberculosis (TB), has plagued humans for thousands of years, and it isn&#8217;t going anywhere just yet. Since being scientifically identified in 1882, the disease has killed over 1 billion people \u2013 that\u2019s more people than smallpox, malaria, HIV\/AIDS, cholera, and the flu combined. A few decades ago, some were confident this bacterial burden could be stamped out in the US and beyond, but now, it\u2019s slowly creeping back with a vengeance. <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/jia2.25698\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"TB, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TB<\/a>&nbsp;is an infection caused by the bacterium&nbsp;<em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis<\/em>&nbsp;that usually attacks the lungs, although it can impact any part of the body with deadly efficiency. Highly contagious, it&#8217;s spread by inhaling tiny airborne droplets from the coughs, splutters, and tainted breath of an infected person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it can play strange games with its hosts. Some people can be infected and not fall sick, living alongside the bacteria with no qualms, while others develop a nasty array of symptoms, including a hacking, lingering cough and chest pain. The disease is treatable with antibiotics, but it can be fatal if treatment isn\u2019t received.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/after-hopes-of-eradication-the-worlds-deadliest-infection-is-creeping-back-in-the-us-with-a-vengeance-82972\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IFL Science Cases have been slowly rising in the US, the UK, and much of the world since 2021. The world&#8217;s top infectious killer, tuberculosis (TB), has plagued humans for thousands of years, and it isn&#8217;t going anywhere just yet. Since being scientifically identified in 1882, the disease has killed over 1 billion people \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","category-tb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11712,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11711\/revisions\/11712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}