By Lauren Weber for Huffington Post

President Barack Obama highlighted the U.S.’s ability to stop malaria and HIV/AIDS in tonight’s State of the Union, but left out tuberculosis less than a month after proposing an ambitious White House plan to combat the world’s top infectious killer.

For more on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, read this special report from The Huffington Post.

The president promised to help countries “stop the next pandemic before it reaches our shores,” but failed to promise any movement on the disease often called “airborne cancer.” Tuberculosis kills over 1.5 million people a year, while HIV/AIDS kills 1.2 million and malaria around 1 million.

The State of the Union comes just 21 days after the White House announced a long-awaited plan to combat tuberculosis and its more dangerous drug-resistant forms.