Respiratory disease tuberculosis is deadlier than COVID-19 but has not received the same public health measures or warnings.
Unlike COVID-19, tuberculosis has plagued humans for more than a millennium. When a tuberculosis-infected individual cough, Mycobacterium tuberculosis can remain suspended in the air longer, until it's inhaled by someone else, usually in a confined space.
Tuberculosis spreads usually in hours. (Tuberculosis) basically puts a little 'bunker' inside your lung and hangs out there until you have a weakness in the immune system.
Once activated, tuberculosis does not stay in the lungs: It can infect the central nervous system (which includes the brain), muscles, skin, liver, lymph nodes, and reproductive organs. Tuberculosis can persist in the body for up to 30 years.
TB there's no contact tracing, mask-wearing, social distancing, which is also employed for COVID-19, which entails identifying everyone who may have come into contact with an infected or suspected infected person. WHY?

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