The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates nearly 13 million people in the U.S. have “latent TB infection.

Global health experts warn that US retreat from TB prevention programs could lead to a resurgence of the deadliest infectious ...

A closely watched clinical trial testing what could be the world’s first new tuberculosis vaccine in a century has hit its ...

The Global Tuberculosis Program began in 2011 with the recruitment of world-renowned pediatric TB expert Dr. Anna Mandalakas to Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, ...

"We can cure virtually everyone with tuberculosis," said Schaffner to Slate. "We have the capacity to do that." But without global cooperation, "we now risk the emergence of TB strains that can't ...

Tuberculosis (TB), a disease which is both ... This will promote streamlined development and the eventual global distribution of a novel vaccine. Although a new, improved vaccination strategy ...

Each year, tuberculosis kills some 1.25 million people ... the active form of the disease," says Amira Roess, a professor of global health and epidemiology at George Mason University in Virginia.

Tuberculosis is the single leading cause of death from infection, except during the major global pandemics caused ... realistic viscosity and likely size distribution of tuberculosis-carrying ...

Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, was responsible for 1.25 million deaths in 2023, 13% of which were among people living with HIV.