An Elmhurst University student was confirmed to have tuberculosis last week, and two more students have suspected cases, ...

Hundreds of students and staff members at Cobb County's Walton High School are waiting for their test results days after they ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

All persons with TB signs and symptoms are initially advised to use rapid molecular diagnostic tests. A tuberculin skin test (TST) and an interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) can also identify TB ...

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 ...

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 ...

"CDPH and the School’s administration have identified those who may have been exposed to TB germs and will be administering a mandatory Tuberculin Skin Test (TST) to those individuals," the CDPH ...