But medication to cure the disease was steadily developed and by the 1970s, aller a specially effective medicine was discovered that needs to be taken for only six months, its threat to human life can be said to have dropped considerably.
但是治療結核病的藥物也不斷出現，七○年代發明只要連續服用半年，便可治癒該病的特效藥後，結核病對人類生命的威脅，可以說是降低了許多。結核病例「止跌回升」