Detecting TB early goes a long way toward avoiding some of the disease's worst outcomes and preventing its spread to others.

Coughing, with blood-tinged sputum (phlegm that comes from deep inside the lungs); fever, weight loss and night sweats are ...

Vaccines and ongoing vigilance are critical to prevent and manage infections in patients who are immunosuppressed or ...

A machine learning model outperformed biological tests for latent TB in identifying HIV-positive people at high risk of ...

You can't predict when or if it becomes active. Some live with latent tuberculosis for a lifetime without ever developing full-blown TB. Unlike other infectious diseases like COVID, you can't ...

The last time that more than 300 TB cases were recorded in Ireland was 2018. The figures dropped substantially in recent years, falling to 203 in 2021. However, since then they have been steadily ...