Tuberculosis kills 1.3 million people each year, making it the deadliest infectious disease in the world, write KJ Seung and.

A relative adjusts a tuberculosis patient's oxygen mask in Hyderabad, India, in 2018. Mahesh Kumar A. / AP March 9, 2025, 6:30 AM EDT / Updated March 10, 2025, 12:02 PM EDT ...

In the U.S., cases jumped 15% from 2022 to 2023, the most recent year of data that saw over 9,600 provisional cases. That’s up from less than 8,900 tuberculosis cases in 2019.

Global tuberculosis cases reached an all-time high in 2023, with nearly 11 million people estimated to have become sick with the disease last year. According to the World Health Organization’s ...

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.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - Health officials have reported a case of tuberculosis in a student at a South Florida school. Florida Department of Health and Broward County officials identified an ...

The new legislation primarily targets mask mandates and quarantine orders. It also has a watered-down anti-vaccine provision. There is no provision on ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as off ...

Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death around the world, outpaced only by COVID-19 during the first three years of the pandemic. Reports of TB date back to the time of Hippocrates ...

After declining for three decades, tuberculosis (TB) rates in the U.S. have been increasing steadily since 2020, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report from the end of ...

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 ...

Everything Is Tuberculosis John Green Crash Course Books, $28. A few years ago, renowned author John Green met a boy named Henry at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone.