Tuberculosis is a contagious bacterial infection that can be spread when an infected person speaks or coughs. Common symptoms ...

A computer-generated image of tuberculosis bacteria, the pathogen infecting people at an Olathe high school. Health officials announced an active tuberculosis case at Olathe Northwest High School in ...

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, per data from the World Health Organization. A person infected with the ...

A new test shows promising results for detecting latent tuberculosis infection in resource-limited settings. This is according to a study from Karolinska Institutet, published in the journal Clinical ...

The county's Health Director, Wes Gray, confirmed the case was reported at Farmville Middle School on Grimmersburg Street in ...

EL PASO, Texas - Following the city's ongoing tuberculosis investigation at Frank Macias Elementary School and a halfway house in central El Paso, more confirmed cases of TB were reported. At the ...

Following the tuberculosis exposure event at Providence Memorial Hospital in El Paso, Texas, five babies have tested positive for TB, according to the El Paso Department of Health. The positive ...

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — The Cobb & Douglas Public Health Department report that no student nor staff test positive for tuberculosis at Walton High School where hundreds were tested after a possible ...

New test shows high sensitivity for tuberculosis, providing a faster, near-point-of-care option for early detection and prevention.