TB can be cured, but ridding the body of the bug often takes many months and usually requires taking four or more medicines.

A vaccine protects more than 100 million infants each year from severe tuberculosis (TB), including the fatal brain swelling ...

A recent phase 2b clinical trial in South Africa found that Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) revaccination did not prevent ...

Some patients with highly drug-resistant tuberculosis could benefit from a shorter treatment with fewer drugs, while others ...

The Department of Health (DOH) has launched the Mindanao-wide Philippine Strategic Tuberculosis (TB) Elimination Plan Phase 2 ...

New drugs that target "zombie" tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of ...

What is TB? Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is a bacterial infection that primarily affects a person's lungs. Its symptoms vary widely depending on how the slow-growing mycobacterium that causes ...

Cases of tuberculosis, which kills more people than any other infectious disease, rose in the U.S. during 2022 — and some doctors are concerned that limitations of testing at the border could be ...

Tuberculosis, a bacterial infection usually found in the lungs, remains the world’s top infectious killer, causing 1.25 million deaths worldwide in 2023, according to the World Health ...

DeKalb County is opening a new high-tech TB clinic to address the highest number of TB cases in Georgia, with 52 cases ...

Kanpur: District Magistrate Jitendra Pratap Singh provided nutrition packets to 11 tuberculosis patients in a programme organised in the Collectorate .

Tuberculosis cases linked to an ongoing outbreak in the Kansas City area continue to climb. The outbreak, which began a year ago, killed two people in 2024.