Tuberculosis (TB) infections are surging in England, figures show, as officials urge healthcare providers to look out for ...

Kansas City has been at the center of an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak, bringing the disease back into the spotlight. Around 67 active cases have been confirmed since the start of 2025, and nearly 400 ...

There were an estimated 490,000 new cases of drug-resistant TB in 2016. Tuberculosis, a lung disease most often transmitted by breathing infected particles in the air, is the ninth leading cause of ...

Delayed treatment of lung or bone tuberculosis can silently spread to the spine, causing chronic pain or paralysis, cautions ...

A highly contagious and potentially deadly disease is seeing sharp upticks—and that's in addition to the measles outbreak we're dealing with already. Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that ...

Since January 2024, 67 cases of tuberculosis (with two fatal) have been found in and around Kansas City, Kansas. Public health officials reported another 79 latent cases, in which people carried the ...

Tuberculosis cases in the U.S. have reached their highest point in over a decade, with more than 10,300 cases reported in 2024. Treatment for tuberculosis involves a combination of medications and ...

As Kansas deals with an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak – the largest in recorded history in the United States – you might be wondering if the threat of TB could make its way to Delaware. Here’s what we ...

Most people who get infected with TB never manifest any symptoms. They have latent tuberculosis, and their immune systems ...

Tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs, has long been considered rare in the U.S. Recently, the Kansas City metro area reported a spike in TB, prompting several ...

Tuberculosis is the world’s deadliest disease and has claimed at least two lives during a current breakout in the greater Kansas City area. Photo by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...