Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death around the world, outpaced only by COVID-19 during the first three ...

Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years.

But in Kansas, they’ve been battling tuberculosis. Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga: The first cases associated with it were recorded in January 2024. The majority of the cases were in Wyandotte County ...

TB was one of the deadliest diseases, which killed 1 in 7 people in the US and in Europe in the late 1800s. However, with the ...

A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...

In the early 20th century, these Black nurses came to New York City from the Jim Crow South to join the fight against the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has played a pivotal role in the resurgence of TB. Cases increased globally by 4.6% from 2020 to 2023, reversing decades of steady disease declines. In the US, TB cases rose by ...

Actually getting treatment is key: The World Health Organization (WHO) says that for two-thirds of TB patients who don't get ...

With one of the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in US history, Kansas has more to worry about than its recent Super Bowl ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

Tuberculosis (TB) continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years. More ...