The story of tuberculosis is one of human struggle and it should be told that way
APART from HIV, what is the world’s deadliest disease? Flu? Ebola? Some unnatural virus killing ferrets deep in a research lab? Not even close. In fact, it’s not even a virus. Step forward good old-fashioned tuberculosis, the star of Helen Bynum’s new book, Spitting Blood.
TB was only recently surpassed by HIV as the biggest global killer, and it still out-kills the likes of malaria. Its infection rate is huge: one third of people on the planet carry the bacteria that cause TB;…
