More people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than of any other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably been the case in quite a while. During the early stages of the S1. （）industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh deaths in S2. （）Europe’s crowded cities were caused by the disease. From S3. （）now on, though, western eyes, missing the global picture, saw S4. （）the trouble going into decline. With occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and infection in the Europe and America S5. （）dropped steadily through the 19th and 20th Centuries. In the 1950s, the introduction of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened the trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed to be imported to poor countries. Medical researchers declared S6. （）victory and withdrew. They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of S7. （）infections and deaths started to pick up again around the world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in many places S8. （）where it had never been away, it grew better. The World S9. （）Heath Organization estimates that 1.7 billion people (a third of the earth’s population) suffer from tuberculosis. Even when the infection rate was falling, population growth kept the number of clinical cases more or less constantly at 8 million a S10. （）year. Around 3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor countries. S10（）