A second active tuberculosis case has been identified in the Chicago suburbs, this time at Joliet West High School.

Officials in suburban Joliet have confirmed a student was diagnosed with tuberculosis in recent days. According to a ...

Active TB commonly affects the lungs, but can spread to other parts of the body like the spine, brain, liver or kidneys, ...

A confirmed case of tuberculosis at a Joliet high school earlier this week was the second in the Chicago area this month, ...

The civic body got 86.28 points out of 100 for its efforts in detecting and treating TB patients under the National ...

The Lake County Health Department confirmed to the school district that the person is isolated from others and undergoing ...

Testing for BSE at slaughterhouses continues, despite the dramatic decline in cases in recent years and the fact that ...

SharePenultimate week, the global community commemorated the 2025 episode of the World Tuberculosis Day. It’s annually marked ...

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Kenya ranks among the World Health Organisation’s 30 high-burden countries for TB and TB/HIV, with the disease claiming 32,000 lives in 2021 alone.

Each year, tuberculosis kills some 1.25 million people globally and more than 10 times that number become infected with the disease annually, according to the World Health Organization.