Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death around the world, outpaced only by COVID-19 during the first three ...

The Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services Tuberculosis/Hansen’s Disease Control Program and the Bureau of Family Health and Nursing Services have been recognized as TB Elimination Champ ...

HealthDay News — Preliminary data released this month by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that more than 10,300 tuberculosis (TB) cases were reported last year, representing ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis has led to a public health emergency in Long Beach, California. City Health Officer Dr. Anissa Davis declared a public health emergency Thursday in response to the ...

John Green's new book highlights the history of tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease, which the Trump ...

Kansas is experiencing one of the largest recorded tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in U.S. history, as experts warn of a growing crisis in public health, worsened by recent legislative restrictions ...

Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years.

Getty Images For more than a year, local, state and federal public health officials have been tracking one of the nation’s largest outbreaks of tuberculosis in decades. So far, 67 communicable ...

Public health workers identified more than 170 active TB cases and more than 400 latent cases from 2015 to 2017. And in 2021, a nationwide outbreak linked to contaminated tissue used in bone ...

Public health is not optional — it is the foundation of a functioning, thriving society. Jack Gruber USA Today Network Kansas is facing the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the U.S. since the 1950s.