A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ...

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

Scientists discovered genes in the tuberculosis bacterium that becomes essential for the pathogen's survival when it's exposed to air through coughing. These genes could be targets for new therapies ...

TB is spread when a person with active TB of the lungs or throat coughs, speaks or sings. TB germs can stay in the air for several hours, depending on the environment. TB germs are more likely to ...

Study by MIT and others identifies genes essential for tuberculosis bacterium’s survival during airborne transmission.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The World Health Organization estimates more than a million people died from tuberculosis ...

TB primarily affects the lungs and can spread to other parts of the body, such as the brain, spine, lymph nodes and kidneys. Not everyone infected with tuberculosis becomes ill immediately.

explains UCSF Center for TB’s Adithya Cattamanchi, MD. Cattamanchi is also UC Irvine’s division chief of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine. TB can be a debilitating illness: The longer it ...