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Ratskii5 months ago
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Hate to say this, Wiki, but I think that stats are a bit off. The author of the article could improve his English too. There is no way that 80% of Americans had TB in the 1990s. I don't trust the 1/3 of population world wide quote either.
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Don't mistake me. TB is a huge killer and some strains have become immune to most of the wonder drugs. But try to post more reputable sources.
Here's a better source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis-
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fempatriot5 months ago
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I think that was a typo and should have read in the 1890s. I know of several families that had the disease back in the early 1900s, and it killed most of them. I once asked a neighbor why so many in her family had died during a particular year (I thought it might have been a flu epidemic) but she said they all had TB. And one of my great uncles married a woman who came from a family with TB. they had around 10 children and lost about 4 of them to TB.
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WikiMap4 months, 4 weeks ago
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1/3 of of world population infected with TB. Source supporting this data
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/opinion/07kristo...
its not a mistake.
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