Florida saw a 9% increase in confirmed TB cases just last year. According to the CDC, tuberculosis rates across the U.S. have increased from 2.5 to 2.9 cases per 100,000 people between 2022 and 2023.

Contact tracing is underway following an alert sent out on Wednesday evening of a confirmed case of contagious tuberculosis at Cache Creek Casino. “In collaboration with public health officials from ...

Having tuberculosis patients wear a surgical mask all day cuts the likelihood of them transmitting the infection through the air by nearly half, according to a new study from South Africa.

There were fewer tuberculosis deaths: 1.32 million fatalities in 2022 and 1.25 million in 2023. Officials also saw a reduction in sickness and death of people from drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis, which is preventable and curable, has reclaimed the title of the world’s leading infectious disease killer, after being supplanted from its long reign by Covid-19.

Tuberculosis, a bacterial infection usually found in the lungs, remains the world’s top infectious killer, causing 1.25 million deaths worldwide in 2023, according to the World Health ...

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 ...

John Green, widely known as a YouTube star and a young-adult novelist, has written a new, already best-selling nonfiction book on the seemingly unlikely topic of tuberculosis. It’s a hopeful ...