But without treatment at this stage, it can develop into active tuberculosis, with symptoms such as a cough that lasts more ...

While TB cases have been rising nationally in recent years, public health officials continue to emphasize there is no threat ...

Researchers analyzed global trends in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) among children and adolescents, revealing ...

Tuberculosis is a serious global health threat that infected more than 10 million people in 2022. Spread through the air and ...

Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 ...

A randomized clinical trial conducted in seven countries has identified three new options for shorter, all-oral treatment of ...

Kansas City-area residents may be alarmed to hear that Wyandotte County is at the epicenter of the largest recorded ...

With cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis on the rise again around the world, GSK has sparked hopes of a new treatment option after reporting phase 2a data with a novel antitubercular drug for the ...

CDC statistics for 2025 were not available online. "A total of 1.25 million people died from tuberculosis in 2023 (including 161 000 people with HIV)," the World Health Organization said.

In “latent” TB, the bacteria hibernates in the person’s lungs or elsewhere in the body. It does not cause symptoms and does not spread to others. Roughly a quarter of the global population ...