With one of the , Kansas has more to worry about than its recent Super Bowl defeat. During the past year, 67 people with TB have been detected. This comes on the back of year on year since the start of the COVID pandemic.

Rather than , TB is the , killing more people each year than any . While more common in low-income countries, TB continues to be found in more , cities, , homeless populations, and in , including in wealthy countries such as the US and UK.

TB outbreaks in wealthy countries act as , reflecting cracks in national public health systems. More broadly, TB outbreaks in any setting have deeper implications for the struggle to end TB globally.

TB is that . With increasing mass movement, including due to and , the maxim is more resonant today than ever.

In the UK, TB rates consistently . But, like the US, this decline reversed since Covid-19 emerged in early 2020.

In 2023, there was a in the number of people who became unwell with TB in England, compared with 2022.

At 9.5 people with TB per 100,000 people per...