Here is something that is quite frightening. And the way it looks it can only get worse. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/19/us-tuberculosis-idUSBRE82I0D820120319
That is alarming. I would have thought faster spread than a 2015 prediction of killing 2 million. More along the lines of late 2013.
The nature of stopping TB may provide that answer. Just from the little looking around on this issue you raised, the pertinent informational bits are: MRTB's (Multiple Drug Resistant TB) HRTB's (Highly Drug Resistant TB) DOTS ( Directly Observed Treatment Strategy) DOTS - Plus. ( as above, but more costly, with argueably worse results) http://www.searo.who.int/en/Section10/Section2097/Section2106_10678.htm http://www.bmj.com/content/326/7389/574.full The procedure of curing it involves long term control, huge amounts of voluntary participation of the sick, acidity problems related from people who are starving (so they don't like to do it) etc, etc.
But by the time that they get around to making it public info around the world it may well be to late.
There are I suppose a couple of grim possibilties/potentials here. Not stoppable, and the panic will produce nothing positive, and be very expensive, on a global scale. Or...let it thin out the herd, Malthusian style. There does seem to be more Eugenics friendly people in places of power of late, so they would have no probs letting nature go unleashed.
World childhood annual TB death toll... 70,000 children 'dying every year from tuberculosis' Tue, Mar 20, 2012 - As many as 70,000 children are dying every year from tuberculosis, as the curable disease often goes unnoticed due to a failure by health workers to recognise the symptoms, the WHO said Wednesday.
