COBB COUNTY, Ga. - Hundreds of students and staff members at Cobb County's Walton High School have received their test results after they were possibly exposed to tuberculosis. Cobb and Douglas ...

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 ...

which manufactures tuberculosis tests used in developing countries, to make them available for $5 per test to enhance availability. Earlier last month, doctors without borders and 150 global ...

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 ...

After hundreds of students and staff at Walton High School in Marietta were tested on Tuesday due to possible tuberculosis (TB ... a mandatory Tuberculin Skin Test (TST) to them.

Tuberculosis replaced COVID-19 to become the top cause for infectious disease-related deaths in 2023, according to a World Health Organization report published on Tuesday, highlighting the ...

29 and will return to receive their test results on Thursday, Oct. 31. "CDPH and the School’s administration have identified those who may have been exposed to TB germs and will be administering ...

GENEVA: A record 8.2 million new tuberculosis cases were diagnosed worldwide last year, the World Health Organization said – the highest number since it began global TB monitoring in 1995.

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — The Cobb & Douglas Public Health Department report that no student nor staff test positive for tuberculosis at Walton High School where hundreds were tested after a possible ...

The woman was given a TB skin test upon her arrival at Richwood which tested “highly positive” on July 23. A chest x-ray also showed signs of “active TB,” according to the complaint.

He noted that tuberculosis has risen steadily in recent years despite being on the decline for decades. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were 9,615 cases of ...