Excess tuberculosis-mortality in young women: High accuracy exploration

So far, the reason of this anomaly remains an open question but the effect is so accurate that it can be used for probing the reliability of mortality records. This will be explained in the case of developing countries. For instance, it turns out that in South African TB death data as published (and revised) by the “World Health Organization”, female deaths were certainly under-estimated by a factor of two. Another implication of our results comes once they are combined with the finding of Bini et al. (2014). It is suggested that clearer insight may be gained by testing the levels of testosterone, progesterone and estrogens in TB patients (particularly in children and young adults) on the one hand and in control groups of healthy volunteers of same sex and age on the other hand.