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Global Plan to End TB 2016 -2020

Global Health Security Capacities

Communicable Diseases
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Measured by the numbers of people who die each year, tuberculosis (TB) is the world��s deadliest infectious disease. Transmitted through the air and primarily targeting the lungs, this disease caused by a bacterial infection claims three lives every minute.1,2 In 2014, more than 9 million people became ill with TB and 1.5 million died, making it the world��s leading infectious killer.3 Worldwide over 2 billion people are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB, comprising a source of the illness that must be addressed if we are to be successful in ending the disease.

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African CDC 119 0 Public Health Resources E-book Global Health Security Capacities Communicable Diseases UNOPS
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