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Global Tuberculosis Deaths Declined in 2024: WHO Report

The World Health Organization fears that a massive loss of funding this year could impede future progress.
Global Tuberculosis Deaths Declined in 2024: WHO Report
A doctor examines the X-rays of a tuberculosis patient at a clinic in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, on Nov. 27, 2002. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Jill McLaughlin
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Worldwide deaths from tuberculosis (TB) decreased in 2024, along with the number of people newly diagnosed with the disease, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) report released on Nov. 12.
Last year, the number of people who were estimated to have been sickened by TB dropped to 10.7 million—representing the first drop since 2020—after reaching a record high of 10.8 million in 2023, according to the report.
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