Initial blood work found hints of an infection, and the doctors initially suspected a bacterial skin infection (cellulitis) ...

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

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

New drugs that target 'zombie' tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of Surrey, published in Scientific Reports. Many dangerous pathogens, ...

One of the most striking parts of John Green’s newest novel, “Everything Is Tuberculosis,” comes as a quote in chapter nine. “Biology has no moral compass,” Green writes. “It does not punish the evil ...

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Health officials issued a warning this week after someone at a suburban Chicago high school was diagnosed with active tuberculosis. According to the Lake County Health Department, the case was ...

When health workers stopped visiting her home in Pakistan to administer tuberculosis medication, Ratna Jamni began dragging herself to a clinic “step by painful step, when even standing feels ...

More than a dozen in Yakima County are sick with tuberculosis, reported The Yakima Herald-Republic. According to the Yakima Health District, there are 16 active cases of the disease in Yakima County.

Video: Our 2021 report on how tuberculosis numbers dropped in New Mexico from 2006 to 2019. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Every year, World Tuberculosis Day is observed on March 24. This marks the date a ...

Tuberculosis remains India’s deadliest infectious disease, accounting for 26% of global TB cases, according to the latest WHO data. Despite years of progress, India is now backsliding, with over 2 ...