More than 10,300 cases were reported last year, an 8% increase from 2023 and the highest since 2011, according to preliminary ...

Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death around the world, outpaced only by COVID-19 during the first three ...

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

TB was one of the deadliest diseases, which killed 1 in 7 people in the US and in Europe in the late 1800s. However, with the ...

But in Kansas, they’ve been battling tuberculosis. Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga: The first cases associated with it were recorded in January 2024. The majority of the cases were in Wyandotte County ...

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, ...

A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...

Actually getting treatment is key: The World Health Organization (WHO) says that for two-thirds of TB patients who don't get ...

The Kansas TB rate jumped 148% last year, according to the new CDC data. Alaska and Hawaii continue to have the highest case rates. Tuberculosis is caused by bacteria that usually attack the lungs ...

The Kansas TB rate jumped 148% last year ... the Breaking News newsletter Get the latest breaking news as it happens. Tuberculosis is caused by bacteria that usually attack the lungs, and is ...