Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday lauded the reduction in the incidence of tuberculosis in India since 2015, which was twice the global rate of decline and credited it to the expansion of ...

Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years. More than 10,300 cases were reported last year, an 8% increase from 2023 and the ...

Health authorities are calling attention to a looming consequence of the Trump administration’s gutting of the U.S. Agency for International Development: the risk of a global surge in tuberculosis ...

Why doesn’t the public know more about the troubling tuberculosis outbreak in eastern Kansas? The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) is tracking 384 individuals with suspected ...

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Hope your February is off to a great start. Let’s kick off the week by catching up on all the ...

John Green has a new book on the way. On Oct. 22, publisher Crash Course Books, a new imprint of Penguin Young Readers, announced the forthcoming publication of a new nonfiction book by the ...

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Health officials have confirmed almost 50 cases of tuberculosis in Wyandotte County, more than in all of Kansas last year. But the public risk remains low. The Kansas Department of Health and ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease that can be very serious if not treated. TB can stay dormant in your body for decades, but it’s contagious only when you have active symptoms. Tuberculosis ...