Reported cases of TB shot up 34% from 2020 to 2023, according to the CDC. Western Europe, Scandinavia and North America are all reporting rising TB rates as migrants arrive.

It’s World TB Day again on March 24 and despite bold claims tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the most pressing global health challenges, disproportionately affecting marginalised communities ...

In more than half of TB diagnostic units in high-burden countries, this is what TB testing looks like. It’s not too different from how TB was first discovered more than a century ago, explains UCSF ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown how the bacteria causing tuberculosis (TB) directly cross the brain's protective barrier, causing meningitis, a very severe form of the ...

The hunt for TB’s cause. It has taken thousands of years for humanity to appreciate those skills. About 3300 years ago, physicians in India wrote down some of the oldest known observations of ...

The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an important public health lesson.