ABSTRACT: Introduction: Tuberculosis is a contagious infectious disease caused by a mycobacterium of the tuberculosis complex. It remains a serious disease worldwide despite the efforts made to ...

Tulare County reports in November rise in active TB cases and exposure risk. Health officials urge risk-based TB screening via blood or skin tests in 2025. CDC logged an 8% US TB increase in 2024; ...

After an active case of tuberculosis was detected in the Sacramento area, you may be wondering about your risks of contracting the highly contagious disease. An individual with contagious tuberculosis ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Experts have advised against routine testing for latent tuberculosis infection among people prescribed ...

LANSING, MI - A registered nurse died from tuberculosis, TB, more than eight years after being exposed to the infectious disease while treating a patient in Dearborn. The Michigan Occupational Safety ...

USAID funding cuts for tuberculosis programs have resulted in an estimated 11,000 additional deaths. The cuts, implemented shortly after Trump's inauguration, could lead to a surge in global ...

A patient we'll call Juliet is a young woman you wouldn't have noticed if you had happened upon her in the market or on a bus in the African country where she lived. She looks healthy. But she isn’t.

A woman with her children leaving the TB Clinic after receiving care and retrieving medication from the pharmacy at Baylor Tuberculosis Centre of Excellence, Mbabane, Eswatini. TB patients globally ...

When health workers stopped visiting her home in Pakistan to administer tuberculosis medication, Ratna Jamni began dragging herself to a clinic “step by painful step, when even standing feels ...

"At the time, I knew almost nothing about TB. To me, it was a disease of history — something that killed depressive 19th-century poets, not present-tense humans." When you purchase through links on ...