(CNN) — In 2014, an estimated 9.6 million people were infected by tuberculosis, according to the World Health Organization. Potentially fatal — 1.5 million died from it the same year — it is a disease ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The number of human tuberculosis (TB) cases that are due to transmission from animals, as opposed to human-to-human transmission, may be much higher than previously estimated, ...

A new systematic review of animal studies testing a vaccine for tuberculosis raises questions about whether the studies provided sufficient evidence to move into trials of children. A new systematic ...

SURREY, England, Sept. 28 (UPI) --Vitamin D has been known to diminish the severity of tuberculosis in humans, but it's never before been studied in animals. New research suggests the vitamin could ...

Bovine tuberculosis (bovine Tb) is a disease found in mammals caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis). In North America, bovine Tb is most commonly found in domestic cattle and captive ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the No.1 cause of death due to a single infectious agent in the world today. According to the global report from World Health Organization, one third of world population is ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Tuberculosis should be a specter of the past, something only our ...

A monkey at the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) at Fort Detrick tested positive for the bacteria that causes tuberculosis, according to a news release from the agency.

LANSING, MI - State agriculture officials have scheduled an informational meeting to discuss their recent discovery of two bovine tuberculosis positive cattle at a processing facility in Ottawa County ...

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