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In light of things seeming gloomy lately, I thought this thread was worth a bump.

Deaths from tuberculosis, the world's deadliest disease, are down 29% since 2015

https://www.who.int/news/item/12-11-2025-global-gains-in-tuberculosis-response-endangered-by-funding-challenges?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Deforestation has declined for the third decade in a row worldwide

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/10/1166148?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The survival rate for all cancers in Australia has risen to 71%, up from 49% in the 1980s

https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/cancer/cancer-data-in-australia/contents/summary

Global homicide rates are down 24% since 2000

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5?end=2023&start=2000

New antibiotic discovered that is 100 times more effective at killing resistant superbugs

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251029002855.htm?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

World’s rarest deer, once extinct in the wild, bounces back from just 36 left alive to over 8000

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/miracle-recovery-for-worlds-rarest-and-strangest-deer-just-39-became-8200/