The World Health Organization’s latest global report on tuberculosis has good and bad news for African countries.

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

Tuberculosis, or TB, is an airborne bacterial respiratory disease. Once the cause of a quarter of all deaths in the U.S., ...

A record 8.2 million new tuberculosis cases were diagnosed worldwide last year, the World Health Organization said -- the ...

Improvements in tuberculosis screening in Equatorial Guinea have revealed the substantial burden of multidrug-resistant ...

The WHO report noted that a majority of the funding for the TB programme comes from government resources. Over the years, ...

The WHO acknowledged a drop in India's TB incidence - from 237 per lakh population in 2015, to 195 per lakh population in 2023 accounting for a 17.7 per cent decline - this is more than double the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today published a new report on tuberculosis revealing that approximately 8.2 million people were newly diagnosed ...

Last year about 8.2 million people were newly diagnosed, meaning they could access suitable treatment – the highest number recorded since WHO began global TB monitoring in 1995 – up from 7.5 million ...

Giant African pouched rats have been trained to sniff out explosives and tuberculosis. Now, the rats show promise in another area: combatting the illegal wildlife trade.

In the past, African giant pouched rats have learned to detect explosives and the tuberculosis-causing pathogen. Now, a team ...

Researchers say they have trained African giant pouched rats to detect pangolin scales, elephant ivory, rhino horn, and ...