The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests ...

The World Health Organization warned last week that the sweeping funding cuts could endanger millions of lives, since many countries depend on foreign aid for TB prevention, testing and treatment.

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

"The individual is receiving treatment and is no longer in the shelter or community organization environments," a state ...

Kansas is experiencing its largest tuberculosis outbreak in history, with 67 active cases and two deaths. The outbreak is contained to specific areas in Kansas and poses a low risk to the general ...

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City metropolitan area straddling Kansas and Missouri has made headlines across the country, a rare feat for an infectious disease too often ignored ...

Debates over tuberculosis reporting began in the late 19th century, when the bacterial infection was reframed not as a disease of the elite but of the urban poor. New York City was the first in the ...

More information: Dhiraj K. Singh et al, Prevention of tuberculosis in cynomolgus macaques by an attenuated Mycobacterium ...

Three major controversies in the history of public health underscore what is at stake with the collection and maintenance of this information. The collection of tuberculosis data provided the ...