Tuberculosis is once again the infectious disease responsible for the most deaths worldwide, according to a Tuesday ...

An estimated 1.2 million children develop tuberculosis disease (TB) and 200,000 kids die from TB worldwide each year, but the risk of developing TB infection and disease throughout childhood remains ...

Walton High School tested around 300 students and staff for tuberculosis after a potential exposure. Public Health officials and school administrators identified individuals who needed testing to ...

Advocacy groups, including Doctors Without Borders, have long called for the U.S. company Cepheid, which produces TB tests used in poorer countries, to make them available for $5 per test to ...

New findings also indicate that children who live in settings with a high burden of TB have a consistently high annual risk of developing TB infection throughout childhood.

India’s dedicated journey towards tuberculosis (TB) elimination has been recognized globally, with a noteworthy 17.7% decline ...

Closer to the end of 2024, we return to the classic PC builds of the month. This time, we'll look at several typical ...

A new study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health is the first birth cohort study to assess TB infection and active TB disease during children’s first decade of life in high-burden ...

This 1966 microscope photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli, the organism responsible for causing the disease tuberculosis.

The test was not given to everyone at the school. Cobb and Douglas Public Health officials worked with school administrators to determine those who may have been exposed and came up with about 300 ...