Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is a bacterial infection that primarily affects a person's lungs. Its symptoms vary widely depending on how the slow-growing mycobacterium that causes the infection ...

Has the recent Tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas got you worried about catching TB? Learn about the top symptoms to look out for and explore some tips on how to stop the spread.

Public health efforts and sanitariums Myobacterium tuberculosis was discovered in 1882 and the clinical benefit of antibiotic streptomycin in 1945. Public health efforts were ultimately the key to ...

Tuberculosis is one of the oldest diseases in human history – and it still kills more than a million people every year. In a new book, The Fault in Our Stars author John Green argues the ...

The conundrum that Buikstra and others had been puzzling through was this: In North and South America today, the tuberculosis that sickens people tends to match the lineage that circulates in ...

Tuberculosis has passed Covid as the top infectious disease killer, despite new medicines and better diagnostic tools. Gifty Gyan, who was diagnosed with tuberculosis in June, was weighed at the ...