WHO estimates that 1ยท6 million people die each year before or during tuberculosis treatment. In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Kamila Romanowski and colleagues'1 meta-analysis showed that tuberculosis survivors have approximately three-times to four-times greater mortality than their local populations, including among younger adults. These transformative findings show that tuberculosis, already the most frequent cause of death from a single infectious agent, is associated with even greater mortality than current estimates.
Original Article: [Comment] Healthy survival after tuberculosis