An ancient disease, tuberculosis has been found in the skulls ... Directly Observed Treatment Short-course, or DOTS, is the conventional procedure for delivering drugs so health care workers ...

Globally, tuberculosis is responsible for the most deaths of any infectious disease. Around 1.25 million people died from the bacterial infection in 2023, the latest data available, and new cases ...

10 million people contract tuberculosis (TB), with 1.5 million cases leading to death. Despite being a preventable and curable disease, TB is the world’s top infectious killer. Multidrug ...

The person who has contracted the disease has been on a recovery ... “The active TB case that we have has been on our DOT which is our therapy for quite some time so it’s not a new case ...

Tuberculosis (TB), a disease which is both curable and preventable ... The WHO has initiated the directly observed therapy (DOTS) campaign in many regions, but so far this programme has not ...

Without public health surveillance, officials trying to tackle outbreaks, identify threats and evaluate treatments are working ‘in the darkness of ignorance.’ ...

Slashing tuberculosis aid could endanger millions of lives abroad, health authorities say, with potential consequences for ...