Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years.

As a result, tuberculosis has mostly lost the attention of the rich world. Not so for the world's poorer half, where ...

But there was a time when tuberculosis was frightful. In the 1800s, tuberculosis caused a tsunami of deaths, killing one in every four persons across Europe and the United States. For most of the ...

In a new book, author John Green traces how the disease has impacted culture, geography, and even fashion over the centuries.

Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the ... If not treated properly, it can be fatal. In the late 1800s, TB killed one out of every seven people living in the United States and Europe.