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- At the end of the twentieth century, tb was still killing about two million people a year, more adults than any other infectious disease, except for AIDS, and tb shared what Farmer called "a noxious synergy" with AIDS, since an active case of one often makes a latent case of the other active, too.†
Chpt 3.13latent = potentially existing but not presently evident or active
- According to the best current estimates, about two billion people, one-third of humanity, have tb bacilli in their bodies, but the disease tends to remain latent.
Chpt 3.13 *latent = existing but not presently active