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>Tuberculosis was effectively a death sentence in the 18th and 19th centuries when there was no cure.

It's not the infection that's a problem, you fucking moron, since the vast majority of cases remain latent and asymptomatic. Tuberculosis becomes active when the immune system is compromised, like in alcoholism and serious malnourishment.

"New estimate suggests a quarter of the world’s population has latent tuberculosis" - https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/expert-opinion/new-estimate-suggests-quarter-worlds-population-has-latent-tuberculosis

>The disease has a high fatality rate, killing up to half of patients if left untreated or unvaccinated.

Tuberculosis vaccines do not work, which is why most countries do not use them.

From the same source:

"causing an estimated 1.8m deaths in 2015"
"We found that closer to a quarter of today’s global population has a latent TB infection – around 1.7 billion people."

That's a fatality rate of 0.1%, you disgusting Amerishart.