Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that usually affects the lungs but can spread to other parts of the body, including the skin. Once it reaches the skin, TB can cause a variety of lesions ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties and continues as of early March ...

U.S.A.I.D. Global Health The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.

Candidate transmission survival genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2025; 122 (10) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2425981122 Cite This Page : ...

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 ...

NOW, THAT IS A STANDARD PROCEDURE. ANY TIME SOMEONE HERE IN THE GRANITE STATE IS DIAGNOSED WITH TU A person in Manchester has been diagnosed with tuberculosis, New Hampshire health officials said ...

Marcela Henao-Tamayo receives funding from NIAID, NIH and OEDIT. An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

U.S. has given up to $250M yearly in funding for global TB programs, WHO says. The World Health Organization warned this week that massive cuts in funding, especially from the United States, could ...

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday that severe funding cuts – particularly in the United States – are threatening decades of progress in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), ...

Up to 166,000 people will die from malaria. New cases of tuberculosis will go up by 30%. Two hundred thousand more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade. Instead of acting on ...

Editor's note: This story was updated on March 12, 2025, to note that the outbreak is not the largest on record in the United States. We apologize for the error ...

We're working with provinces, territories, Indigenous governments and other partners to end tuberculosis in Canada and around the world. Our joint efforts focus on 3 key areas: enhancing our efforts ...