Contact | Epidemic TB in the Global Community

In 2009, 9.4 million people developed active TB disease

TB is not spread by shaking someone’s hand

Without treatment, 90% of people with HIV die months after contracting TB

10% of people with latent TB will get active TB in their lifetime

Someone dies of TB every 20 seconds

Over 2 billion people have latent TB

TB bacteria can live in your body without making you sick

Author Edgar Allan Poe died of TB

If not treated, a person with active TB can infect 10 to 15 people a year

TB killed 1.8 million people in 2008

TB is completely curable in most cases with medicines costing as little as $20