The TB death rate in Dharmapuri went down from 12.5% to 7.8%, in Karur from 7.1% to 5.3%, and in Villupuram from 6.1% to 5.2% ...

Global tuberculosis deaths saw an uptick in 2020 for the first time in more than a decade, a World Health Organization (WHO) report released Thursday found, attributing the rise to the disruption ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a near-perfect predator. In 1882, Robert Koch, the physician who discovered the microbe, told a room full of scientists that it caused one in seven of all deaths.

The rise in the tuberculosis death toll last year was due largely to fewer people getting tested and treated for TB during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Global deaths caused by tuberculosis have increased during COVID-19, according to the WHO. While 2019 experienced 1.4 million related deaths, 2021 saw 1.6 million.

Tuberculosis deaths rise for 1st time in years, due to COVID By . Associated Press. Published Oct. 14, 2021, 12:00 p.m. ET. In this March 24, 2018 file photo, a relative adjusts the oxygen mask of ...

Tuberculosis deaths are rising again — and covid is to blame October 17, 2021 A relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient at a hospital in Hyderabad, India, on March 24, 2018.

Good news from PLoS One, the Baltimore Sun reports -- cases of tuberculosis are falling because of effective prevention measures, but the risk of drug-resistant TB is going up. Tuberculosis isn ...

Detailed analysis of TB-related deaths in India, highlighting the need for audits to meet TB elimination goals.

Tamil Nadu has become the first state in the country to implement a model which predicts the probability of deaths among ...

An autopsy showed she had tuberculosis meningitis. The second baby, Abigail White, was tested for TB and treated, but she succumbed to the disease at Summerlin Hospital on Aug. 1.

Tuberculosis was once a death sentence. Doctors could do little to treat it, and almost nothing was known of its spread. Two physicians—Robert Koch and Arthur Conan Doyle—changed that.