People, it seems, love to forget past disasters or simply believe that old scourges don't happen here. Between 1910 and 1950 fighting TB was taken seriously. Once it got under "control" in developed nations - we began forgetting. Who remembers that Christmas Seals were sold to raise money to fight TB? Not many. Who remembers simple methods to prevent its spread - not many it seems.

I know for a fact (in that I have the scar to prove it) that other countries still give the BCG vaccine against TB. Sure, it doesn't protect 100%, but it's better than nothing. With the increase in immune-compromised people living longer (because of treatments against HIV and Cancer, mainly), we should have a better infection control strategy that includes vaccines we no longer use.

But that's just me.

You are absolutely right! And we have loads of people who are immune-compromised because of transplants.

Wish it were not so but it will probably take some significant disasters for people to take old problem serious enough to get it back into everyday prevention mindset.