In 2020, even when Covid-19 became headlines for the life he claimed, more than 1,300 Indians died every day due to TB. Tuberculosis is a hidden pandemic that we have lived for centuries, which affects Indians from all the strata of society. The results of the national TB prevalence survey show that the diagnosis has fallen sharply in the last two years due to regular health service disorders with pandemic, and therefore, because more patients remain unniagnosed and untreated, the number of daily deaths because tuberculosis will increase. What is worrying is that regardless of this data, Indian expenditure for treatment for tuberculosis, both sensitive forms of drugs and drugs that are resistant, remain the lowest between 10 countries with the highest burden of this disease.

All of this makes the book of Health Journalist Vidya Krishnan Phantom Plague: How history is in the form of tuberculosis A read on time. His work is the culmination of almost a decade of an investigation of ancient diseases that grow more resistant every decade that passes. This is a diving into muddy epidemic waters that have disturbed the world for centuries and slow evolution of science to catch up with pathogens who always find ways to outsmart public health experts. With this book, Krishnan revealed many things about what made you sick, responding to the official policy of the threats caused by Tuberculosis about human and collective ignorance that had brought us to the ‘Doomsday of Antibiotics’ today.