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TB is a fun disease that can't be fully prevented by vaccination, takes 6+ months of therapy to recover from, and still stays latent forever. It takes quite a lot money and organization to abolish.
Sugimoto is almost certainly infected, too, but the chance of developing disease during a lifetime is only about 5% for the general population. Stories like a whole family getting wiped out by TB are very unusual, but plausible with genetic suspectibility.
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