There is something seriously wrong when a fatal, highly infectious disease isn't dealt with at the first signs of outbreak. People die of TB! Especially the new, drug-resistant strains!
Oh fuck. It's springing up in Miami, too?
OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK
TB is not as lethal or infectious as you seem to be panicking about. If you are a generally healthy individual you should have nothing to fear. TB is a very resilient bacterium which is why it is difficult to treat as well as how it manages to survive outside the body and spread so easily. However that resilience comes at the cost of it having trouble replicating. If your immune system is in good order it will probably wipe out the TB infection before any symptoms being to manifest. On the other hand if your immune system is not in peak condition, then it has more time before your body reacts and as a result can become an entrenched infection.
Also although people do die from TB the actual deaths to infection ratio is pretty small. It is very similar to pneumonia is that it is lethal if left untreated, but you still probably wont die from it easily. It is however an infection that sticks and is very difficult to treat. Further the medicine for treating TB generally makes you feel worse than if you were not taking the medicine (this is doubly true for the drug resistant strain treatment), so as a result many TB infected people stop taking their TB medicine, making the situation significantly worse. Add to that the fact that the people who generally get infected cant afford proper treatment or the downtime caused by the infection and it starts becoming a serious problem.
The part that I am wondering about is how long will it be before the Florida health department has to start taking measures similar to those in Africa to treat all the people who are becoming infected. It has already spread beyond containment so from here on its just going to grow in the number of cases all of which will basically be paid by the state to cure because the people themselves are too poor to afford their own treatment.