Earlier this year, the Trump administration’s defunding of USAID brought an abrupt halt to hundreds of global health programs, including those targeting tuberculosis. The disease kills more people ...

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Tuberculosis – the world's deadliest infectious disease – could be dormant in your system for years before you realize you have it. In the US, it's relatively rare; provisional data shows that there ...

In September 2025, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) confirmed three active tuberculosis (TB) cases in the Portland area. Though TB is often thought to be rare in the ...

Amid longstanding debate on the effectiveness of the tuberculosis vaccine, a new study suggests that the vaccine is protective against TB in children under 5, but adolescents and adults in high-burden ...

A recent study predicts a possible surge in tuberculosis cases worldwide, with more than 2 million deaths and over 10 million infections projected by 2030. The research, published in the journal PLOS, ...

The San Francisco Public Health Department has launched a "large-scale TB contact investigation" after a tuberculosis outbreak this week at Archbishop Riordan High School infected at least three ...

Scientists have made a discovery that helps explain why humans and animals are so susceptible to contracting tuberculosis(TB) – and it involves the bacteria harnessing part of the immune system meant ...