Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, per data from the World Health Organization. A person infected with the ...

A highly contagious and potentially deadly disease is seeing sharp upticks—and that's in addition to the measles outbreak we're dealing with already. Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that ...

The bacteria that cause the disease can be spread through the air by coughing, sneezing or even just speaking. People nearby can inhale the airborne germs. The vaccine Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is ...

SIGNIFICANT progress has been made in TB diagnostics in the past decade as countries in the African region embrace new ...

Cases of tuberculosis (TB) — an illness that kills more people than any other infectious disease — rose in the U.S. during 2022, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And some ...

Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is a leading cause of infection-related deaths in humans worldwide. In addition to causing devastating disease and mortality in young ...

A highly contagious and potentially deadly disease is seeing sharp upticks—and that's in addition to the measles outbreak ...