City health officials are meeting with Landrum Middle School parents Tuesday after a student there tested positive for tuberculosis, a Spring Branch school spokesman said. School administrators sent a ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis in Kansas has become the largest recorded outbreak of the illness in the U.S., with nearly 70 active cases since last year. A doctor examines the x-rays of a tuberculosis ...

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 ...

The number of people diagnosed with tuberculosis worldwide rose again last year, eclipsing 2023's record total.

Global tuberculosis rates fell about 2% in 2024 from the previous year, according to a World Health Organization report, ...

For the second time, contaminated bone graft products from the medical company Aziyo Biologics Inc. are linked to a highly unusual and deadly outbreak of tuberculosis. This week, three new ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a near-perfect predator. In 1882, Robert Koch, the physician who discovered the microbe, told a room full of scientists that it caused one in seven of all deaths. In 2023 ...

Washington, D.C.-based drugmaker Danaher has agreed to lower the cost of test cartridges used to diagnose tuberculosis by 20% and sell them at cost, the company announced Tuesday, a move that comes ...