“…One of the last official epidemiological reports made by the Venezuelan government pointed to a 68% increase in the number of tuberculosis cases (7,816 new cases) in the year 2016, in Venezuela, with an incidence rate of 32.4/100,000 inhab. considered the highest in the country in 40 years ( Maurera et al., 2019 ). Evidence seems to point-out to a regular migratory flow at the international borders of Brazil, as well as the active transmission of TB in these contexts.…”