Show me the money.

There was a lot of interest today in what the administrator of the NIH had to say about how they were going to spend their budget. One item stood out

cure 2.4 million people infected with TB.

If they don't cure all people of TB there is a good chance that the 2.4M will become reinfected by those who fell outside of the 2.4M pool - which is currently

In 2007, an estimated 13.7 million people had active TB disease, with 9.3 million new cases and 1.8 million deaths