As tuberculosis cases rise in the US and worldwide, health officials puzzle over the resurgence of a disease once in decline
An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...
The fight against TB was frozen in time, until now. See its future.
Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ...
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Understanding Tuberculosis: Symptoms and Transmission Risks Explained
A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...
Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally
The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests ...
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World Health Organization warns of possible tuberculosis surge because of USAID cuts
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 ...
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Tuberculosis testing underway after case identified in person at Manchester shelter
"The individual is receiving treatment and is no longer in the shelter or community organization environments," a state ...
Tuberculosis case confirmed in Manchester, state health officials say
A person in Manchester who spent time in one of the city's homeless shelters has tested positive for tuberculosis, state health officials confirmed Thursday. Jake Leon, the director of communications ...
From TB to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension, but it’s the foundation of public health
Debates over tuberculosis reporting began in the late 19th century, when the bacterial infection was reframed not as a disease of the elite but of the urban poor. New York City was the first in the ...
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Solutions to TB and HIV benefit all of us
In the west of Kenya, near the shores of Lake Victoria, where I come from, a tuberculosis outbreak is no different from one that takes place anywhere else in the world. A few dozen people get sick ...
Free testing clinics for tuberculosis scheduled in Manchester following confirmed case
Two testing clinics will be held in Manchester next week, after a person who spent time at the Families in Transition Adult Shelter and the 1269 Café tested positive for tuberculosis, state health ...
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Person in Manchester diagnosed with tuberculosis, health officials say
TB IS A SERIOUS INFECTION THAT PRIMARILY TARGETS THE LUNGS, AND IT OFTEN PRESENTS AS A BAD COUGH. IT CAN BE FATAL IF LEFT UNTREATED. ABOUT 12 PEOPLE ARE DIAGNOSED WITH IT HERE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE ...
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100-day TB elimination campaign far from achieving main objective
The 100-day intensified TB elimination campaign was launched on December 7, 2024 across 455 intervention districts in 33 States and Union Territories to screen and test for TB among people ...