A resident in southern New Jersey recently tested positive for tuberculosis. Here's what you need to know about the spread of ...

A new framework may better characterize the early stages of tuberculosis (TB) and improve research and clinical care, an international team of researchers said. Turning against the current "active" or ...

In Johnson County, Iowa, the number of tuberculosis cases has increased in recent years—and so has the cost of containing it.

Produced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), this digitally colorized scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image, depicts a grouping of red-colored, rod shaped, ...

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Ocular TB is a rare eye disease due to infection from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the same bacterium that causes tuberculosis, commonly known as TB. TB symptoms usually start in the lungs, but they ...

Tuberculosis (TB) can transmit via the air, and the risk of infection depends on several factors. These can include the duration of exposure, proximity to a person with the infection, and immune ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The county's Tuberculosis Program is working with the Metropolitan Transit System to notify riders of the trolley's Blue Line that they were potentially exposed to and are at risk ...

A CDC webpage detailing tuberculosis (TB) trends among Asian persons is no longer accessible on the agency's website. The page cited federal surveillance data showing that Asian persons had the ...

Earlier this month, a high school student in Joliet, Ill. tested positive for a highly contagious disease that has claimed more lives than any other throughout human history. Many mistakenly believe ...

Before SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, spread across the world in 2020, tuberculosis was responsible for more deaths globally than any other infectious disease. But thanks to targeted ...

Students at Archbishop Riordan High School have to submit a negative tuberculosis test before they can attend school events Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously ...