Some patients at KwaZulu-Natal hospitals are donating lung tissue for use in TB research. Sue Segar tracks what happens to these tissue samples and explores why these samples are so important to ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday highlighted the nation's achievements in reducing tuberculosis (TB) incidence.

Oct. 3, 2024 — A new study identified that a semi-synthetic compound can be derived from natural compounds and shows potent activity against tuberculosis (TB), including multi-drug resistant ...

The Global 2024 Tuberculosis Report further indicates that at least 8 million people, 500, 000 more than the number in 2022, ...

Pulmonary tuberculosis or TB is a bacterial infection that mainly impacts the lungs and it is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacteria that spreads through the air when an infected person ...

The Global Tuberculosis Report highlights that TB resurges as the leading infectious killer, surpassing COVID-19 in 2023 — ...

C OVID-19 has been overtaken as the deadliest infectious disease on the planet. According to a new report from the World ...

In 2023, tuberculosis overtook COVID-19 as the deadliest infectious disease, according to a recent World Health Organization ...

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

WHO in its report mentioned that in the year 2023, a total of 1.25 million people died from tuberculosis, including 161 000 ...

An estimated 56,000 people in South Africa and 1.25 million around the world died of tuberculosis in 2023, according to just-published figures from the World Health Organization. This means that in ...

The WHO's latest report on tuberculosis shows that it's once again the leading cause of death from a single infectious ...