A TB awareness hoarding near Goalpara Civil Hospital was replaced by a movie poster, prompting official complaints.

Each year, tuberculosis kills some 1.25 million people globally and more than 10 times that number become infected with the disease annually, according to the World Health Organization.

Globally, tuberculosis is responsible for the most deaths of any infectious disease. Around 1.25 million people died from the bacterial infection in 2023, the latest data available, and new cases ...

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.

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties and continues as of ...

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. Taylor Leamey writes ...

In new book, 'The Fault in Our Stars' author John Green takes on tuberculosis : NPR's Book of the Day Tuberculosis is one of the oldest diseases in human history – and it still kills more than a ...

That is until staff revealed that Henry was a patient with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis — and that he was 17. Henry was small because he grew up malnourished. At age 5, he became ill with ...