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56: A Massive Future for an Old Vaccine? | Megan Murray

The After On Podcast

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The Resistance of TB to Elimination

The majority of people who are exposed to TB will simply never come down with the disease and never become infectious. Why is it that TB has been utterly resistant to eradication? Is it because of this phenomenon of latent infection that makes it so difficult to really stamp out? "I have a hard time believing that it doesn't have any effect whatsoever," he says.

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