U.S. health officials are racing to control an outbreak of tuberculosis linked to contaminated bone graft material that has killed one person and infected at least four others - the second outbreak of ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis that affected dozens of people last year has been tied to bone grafts, echoing a larger outbreak in 2021. These two recent outbreaks highlight the need to better screen ...

A tuberculosis outbreak that spanned seven states in 2023 has been tied to bone graft products from an infected donor — again. Two spinal surgery patients died from a tuberculosis infection, or TB, ...

Washington ― The U.S. House on Monday unanimously adopted legislation prompted by the death last year of a 57-year-old northern Michigan woman who died from tuberculosis linked to contaminated bone ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the pathogenic bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), which is still a major public health problem in many parts of the world. TB tends to manifest in the lungs, but ...

Federal and state health officials are investigating a rare tuberculosis outbreak among more than 100 patients who may have been infected after having spinal surgery or fracture repairs this spring ...

Two deaths and five infections of tuberculosis have been confirmed from spinal surgeries that used a bone allograft from an infected donor, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Piron ...