Each year, tuberculosis kills some 1.25 million people globally and more than 10 times that number become infected with the disease annually, according to the World Health Organization.

The latest World Health Organization's Global Tuberculosis Report released in November 2024 painted a sobering picture; approximately 8.2 million people were newly diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB ...

Health Tuberculosis has overtaken COVID as world's deadliest infectious disease The contagious infection killed 1.25 million people globally last year, says World Health Organization ...

The state’s tuberculosis rate was 5.4 cases per 100,000 people — nearly double the nationwide incidence rate of 2.9, the California Department of Public Health said on its website.

Tuberculosis rates also are rising nationally, up 16% in 2023 compared with the previous year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. The 9,615 cases provisionally ...

Tuberculosis Outbreak in Long Beach, Calif., Has Left 1 Dead, 9 Hospitalized and 170 People Exposed. An outbreak of the lung disease, which has been traced to an unnamed hotel, has left 1 dead and ...

Young people are at risk of falling seriously unwell with tuberculosis and spreading the disease. Therefore, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, among others, have mapped key factors ...

Tuberculosis has passed Covid as the top infectious disease killer, despite new medicines and better diagnostic tools. Gifty Gyan, who was diagnosed with tuberculosis in June, was weighed at the ...

Big Number . 13 million. That’s how many people the CDC estimates live in the U.S. with inactive tuberculosis. If they don’t get treatment, about one in 10 of those people will get active TB. ...

Although COVID-19 preoccupies us today, 1.5 million people died of tuberculosis globally in 2018, according to the World Health Organization. That makes it the leading infectious cause of death.

All about the tuberculosis outbreak. As of Friday, 67 people, in eastern Kansas, are being treated for active tuberculosis, and 79 people have latent cases of disease, according to the Kansas ...