A highly contagious and potentially deadly disease is seeing sharp upticks—and that's in addition to the measles outbreak we're dealing with already. Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that ...

I knew of John Green from his excellent teen novels "The Fault in Our Stars," "Looking for Alaska" and "Turtles All the Way Down." When I heard he had written "Everything is Tuberculosis: The History ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about health and U.K. health policy. Although it's often thought of as a disease of the past, tuberculosis is still found ...

Canada recently announced a 16% reduction in its 2026-2028 pledge to the Global Fund, which fights HIV /AIDS, tuberculosis ...

This CDC illustration shows what the tuberculosis bacteria looks like. A Broward high school and Miami’s federal detention center have each confirmed an active case of tuberculosis, one of the ...

According to the most recent state data, there were 2,100 TB cases reported in California in 2024, representing only a slight decrease from the 2,110 cases identified in 2023.

Before SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, spread across the world in 2020, tuberculosis was responsible for more deaths globally than any other infectious disease. But thanks to targeted ...

In a large household cohort, diabetes mellitus in TB patients did not increase tuberculin skin test infection and was linked ...

A person usually contracts tuberculosis (TB) when they breathe in TB bacteria. In rare cases, the bacteria may travel to the genitourinary tract and transmit between people during sexual activity. If ...

Ocular TB is a rare eye disease due to infection from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the same bacterium that causes tuberculosis, commonly known as TB. TB symptoms usually start in the lungs, but they ...