Cases of tuberculosis have continued to rise in the US, reaching the highest levels in more than a dozen years. More than ...

March 18 is World Tuberculosis Day. Let’s do a quick overview of TB, and discuss the different types of TB, risk factors, ...

World TB Day, observed annually on March 24, highlights the critical need to eradicate tuberculosis- the world's deadliest infectious disease. TB remains a major global health challenge, causing ...

The international community will celebrate World Tuberculosis Day on Monday, 24 March this year. The theme for 2025 is “Yes!

Every year March 24 is marked as World Tuberculosis Day. Tuberculosis is one of the most infectious diseases. Discover the ...

Brito, head of the DOH-CHDNM’s Infectious Disease Cluster, addresses common misconceptions about tuberculosis during the ...

1. Myth: TB affects only the lungs. Fact: This is false. While pulmonary tuberculosis is common, extrapulmonary tuberculosis ...

The TB bacilli have a thick, waxy coat, are slow growing and can survive in the body for many years in a dormant or inactive state. This means people can be infected but show no signs of the disease.

The Maine CDC is excited to announce that we are modernizing our Tuberculosis (TB) reporting system. Currently, inactive TB (also known as Latent TB Infection or LTBI) cases and suspect and confirmed ...

India has a major task to eliminate not only tuberculosis but also leprosy, lymphatic filariasis, measles, rubella, kala azar ...

More than four months since its formation, the constitutional bench has yet to deliver rulings on any critical cases, raising concerns over judicial inertia. On November 4, 2024, the Judicial ...