By the numbers The Red Death

14.6 million: number of people worldwide who died of tuberculosis in 2004

51: percentage of people with untreated TB who die from the disease

10: percentage of TB infections that advance to disease

20: number of other people an untreated TB victim can infect in one year

75: percent of TB infections that attack the lungs.

Source: Wikipedia.org

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