The Department of Health will boost its active case-finding efforts for tuberculosis after recording around 160,000 fewer cases than the World Health Organization's estimate in 2023.

The best-selling author “got a little emotional” while talking with The Times about the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Listen to the conversation.

Without treatment, 50 per cent of tuberculosis patients will die and untreated TB increases the pool of infectious humans to compound the public health problem. According to the World Health ...

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In Solano County, the County TB Control Program evaluated 107 individuals with suspected TB disease in 2024, the latest year for which complete statistics are available.

TB anywhere is TB everywhere,” said tuberculosis expert Philip Hopewell, MD, in the latest ATS Breathe Easy podcast. The U.S. has one of the lowest incidence rates of TB in the world, yet in January, ...

Video: Our 2021 report on how tuberculosis numbers dropped in New Mexico from 2006 to 2019. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Every ...

Tuberculosis infections among children in the European region rose 10% in 2023, indicating ongoing transmission and the need ...

Tuberculosis, or TB, usually attacks the lungs but it can also affect other parts of the body like the brain, kidneys, and ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for an urgent investment of resources to protect and maintain tuberculosis (TB) ...

Industry organisation the Minerals Council South Africa launched its Ex-Mineworkers Occupational Lung Disease (OLD) Guide in ...

Walter notes that despite the progress Kenya has made in the fight against TB, President Donald Trump’s stop order on foreign ...