We can end TB!’ The World Health Organisation described TB as a communicable disease that affects the lungs and is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which spreads through ...

TB infections have been rising every year since 2020 after 30 years of decline. Now, a historic outbreak in Kansas is ...

The number of tuberculosis cases linked to an outbreak ... as they will be reviewed and confirmed officially by the CDC near the end of March.” Dr. Dana Hawkinson, director of infection ...

The number of tuberculosis cases in Kansas is declining after a peak in July and August 2024. “We do believe we are nearing an end of this outbreak,” Hawkinson said. Illnesses like COVID, RSV and flu ...

The Global TB Caucus and partners have identified adequate funding, strengthened multi-sectoral partnerships, and coordinated actions as strategies to ending Tuberculosis ... at the end of the ...

Health officials in Kansas said they have been dealing with an “unprecedented” tuberculosis (TB ... goals is to get this TB outbreak to an end,” KDHE Deputy Secretary for Public Health ...

Volunteers perform a free tuberculosis clinic in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous Prefecture, Southwest China's Guizhou province, March 23, 2023. March 24 marks the 28th World Tuberculosis Day.

Safety end points were grade 3 or higher adverse ... and who had a prerandomization culture positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It excluded participants with baseline phenotypic resistance ...