[fuoqi]

80% sounds like a BS number. It's cited on Wikipedia, but references are either "opinions" or do not contain such information at all.

A proper study [1] shows mean infection rate of ~20% in the worst regions (Far East and North) with the highest rate up to 47%. The situation should be better in the western regions. For comparison, in the US studies show ~4% infection rate [2], so situation in Russia is relatively bad, but improves steadily since 90s and it's far from being catastrophic as the 80% number paints it.

[1]: https://www.tibl-journal.com/jour/article/view/1706

[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/tb/hcp/clinical-overview/latent-tubercul...

[dyauspitr]

I guess it depends on what’s considered trustworthy. I wouldn’t trust a Russian paper as far as you could throw it unless it was in math or physics.

[cyberax]

Russia actually spent quite a lot of resources on TB, especially during the late Soviet and the early Russian history.

All children and professionals working with children are receiving yearly TB testing ("Mantoux test"). Prisons used to be a major vector, but that was reduced by doing TB prevention (antibiotics).

Nobody likes getting TB.

[fuoqi]

But you will trust any unsubstantiated slander disseminated in mass media by interested parties as long as it paints Russia in a bad light. Got it.

[dyauspitr]

Russia did this to themselves. Objectively, for what it once was Russia has horrific metrics around healthcare, alcohol consumption, HIV, drug use, food prices, human rights or any kind of sustainability initiative.