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

Here's what tuberculosis is, how it's transmitted and how you can expect to have it treated if it affects you or someone you love.

New research from Curtin University and The Kids Research Institute Australia mapping tuberculosis (TB) cases in Africa could help dramatically ...

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

The controlled living pattern of all boys in the school and the tuberculosis-control program in effect when the outbreak occurred provided an unusual opportunity to study the epidemiology of this ...

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

A resurgence of tuberculosis in the U.S. from 1985 to 1992 was attributed, in part, to a decline in tuberculosis control ...

"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 ...

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