Stardate 20010707.2239 (On Screen): AIDS is a massive health problem world wide and it's only going to get worse. But hyperbole about it doesn't help anyone. To people in the industrialized world, HIV looms large because it's the largest infectious killer for which no reasonable treatment is available, which means it will be the largest infectious killer of first world citizens. But this article claims that HIV is largest killer in the world overall, and that is not correct. The largest infectious killer in the world is
Tuberculosis and other lung diseases, by a long margin.
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