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Oct 24, 2024 01:02PM
no kidding, i keep seeing his youtube shorts on tb on my feed.
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"Our deadliest infection"? I guess that's because it kills more people in total, rather than what I would assume the phrase means (killing the highest proportion of those who catch it)?
Niharika (semi-hiatus) wrote: "no kidding, i keep seeing his youtube shorts on tb on my feed."literally almost all of my tb knowledge comes from him
Cecily wrote: ""Our deadliest infection"? I guess that's because it kills more people in total, rather than what I would assume the phrase means (killing the highest proportion of those who catch it)?"Yeah it kills 1.3 million; I think Mad Cow Disease would be the deadliest in the way you were thinking. It does have a 15% mortality rate, which is quite high, but most of them come from areas where treatment is unaffordable (the mortality rate without treatment is 60%). They were going to renew the patent last year, continuing to keep it unaffordable to many with no generic, and John Green actually campaigned hard and raised a ton of public awareness about it which led to Johnson & Johnson no longer enforcing the patent which is pretty neat and hopefully means that that mortality rate will go down even more!
I think rabies has a far higher mortality rate than CJD/mad cow disease? But it's fantastic to know that affordable TB treatment is within reach.
Cecily wrote: "I think rabies has a far higher mortality rate than CJD/mad cow disease? But it's fantastic to know that affordable TB treatment is within reach."I believe rabies would be right under CJD, and it definitely kills more people, but there are people who have survived it and Mad Cow Disease has a 100% fatality rate (it can take a couple years sometimes but everyone who has contracted it has died from it)
Wow. I thought there were - literally - only one or two rabies survivors worldwide, and as CJD has a long incubation period, I expect some people who have it might die of other things first, so the stats, if anything, would be an underestimate. I should do more Googling. Thanks, liv.
More like his nightmare & of course since it's John, Hope.
