The Second Coming of the White Plague is a provocative review of the public health and political problems related to tuberculosis, which causes more deaths in the world than AIDS, malaria, and leprosy combined. It rings an alarm that current worldwide TB control measures are insufficient to prevent further spread of epidemics of drug-resistant tuberculosis. This book is an effort to educate the public on TB and, in particular, on the likely possibility that new and alarming drug resistant forms of the disease will lead to epidemics of incurable tuberculosis.