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 ...

Editor’s note: The video in this story is from a previous report. ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Around 200 students and staff at Walton High School were tested for tuberculosis after a possible ...

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.

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - A relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient at a TB hospital on World Tuberculosis ...

Assuring proper identification and treatment of persons who have TB disease Preventing the spread of disease to others Finding, screening and treating persons exposed to those with disease Targeting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tuberculosis testing at Walton High School About 300 Walton High School students were tested for tuberculosis on Tuesday after a possible exposure.

according to the UN agency A health technician analyses blood samples for tuberculosis testing in a high-tech tuberculosis lab in Carabayllo in Lima, Peru. File image/ Reuters Tuberculosis replaced ...

Background: Patients on anti-tuberculosis treatment may develop acute kidney injury (AKI), but little is known about the renal outcome and prognostic factors, especially in an aging population.