As measles, tuberculosis and whooping cough make an alarming comeback, patchy vaccination appointments leave thousands of infants exposed ...

Positive diabetes status among index patients with TB was not associated with increased risk for TB transmission in HHCs.

The late T. B. Joshua remains one of the most talked about religious figures to emerge from Nigeria in the last three decades. Born Temitope Balogun ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. An outbreak of tuberculosis was reported at a private Catholic high school in the Bay Area. Cases of TB have been ...

San Francisco health officials say more than 50 students and staff at Archbishop Riordan High School have now tested positive for latent tuberculosis, adding to the three confirmed active TB cases ...

Tuberculosis continues to be a major public health problem. Although efforts to control the epidemic have reduced mortality and incidence, there are several predisposing factors that should be ...

There are three active cases of tuberculosis in Maine as of this week as TB continues to increase across the country, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported, according to the ...

Children under 15 account for 4.3% of all new and relapsed tuberculosis (TB) cases in the WHO European Region, which includes Europe and Central Asia, compared with 3.9% in 2022, a 10% increase. The ...

A few years ago, renowned author John Green met a boy named Henry at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. Henry was small and, at first glance, looked about 9 years old to Green. Everyone at the ...

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague — a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ice age. Today, the disease — passed from those who are actively sick to ...

Scientists discovered genes in the tuberculosis bacterium that becomes essential for the pathogen's survival when it's exposed to air through coughing. These genes could be targets for new therapies ...

John Green, author of best-selling books including The Fault in Our Stars, could have done anything. He could have written yet another young adult book, or made a new film. But he chose to write a new ...