Dr Nimalan Arinaminpathy, lead author of the research, from the School of Public Health at Imperial College London said: «TB is the top infectious disease killer worldwide, yet we have had little idea of the true scale of the problem in India — the worst affected country. (sciencedaily.com)
That makes rabies the third - biggest infectious disease killer in China after AIDS and tuberculosis. (scientificamerican.com)
According to the World Health Organization, TB is a top infectious disease killer worldwide and is estimated to have infected 9.5 million people and caused 1.5 million deaths in 2014. (sciencedaily.com)