With his new book 'Everything Is Tuberculosis,' celebrity author John Green is breathing new life into tuberculosis advocacy

Indeed, the pathogen seems like ancient history — but as recent developments indicate, tuberculosis isn’t done with us yet. As it happens, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes tuberculosis,

The Greene County Sheriff’s Office says every ICE detainee in the jail has been cleared of Tuberculosis after a recent increase of contamination risk.The sheriff’s office says as of February 27, every ICE detainee was cleared by chest X-ray.

Virtually nothing is known about the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak. This disease surpassed COVID as the leading disease cause of death in the world.

The South Carolina Department of Public Health (DPH) has confirmed a case of tuberculosis (TB) linked to Hartsville High School, prompting a contact investigation to identify potential exposures.Health officials say they are working closely with school leadership to determine who may have been exposed to the TB germ and needs testing.

Tuberculosis case associated with Hartsville High School confirmed by South Carolina Department of Public Health

Working toward more effective tuberculosis (TB) vaccines, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed two strains of mycobacteria with "kill switches" that can be triggered to stop the bacteria after they activate an immune response.

Health officials are investigating a tuberculosis case at Hartsville High School but stress that the risk to the general public is low.

Around 1.5 million patients succumb to the disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). The novel antibiotic BTZ-043 has shown good bactericidal activity in human clinical trials.

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s spending freeze on foreign aid marks a significant challenge for the international development community, and many experts warn that diseases will surge. Read more at The Business Times.

Tuberculosis (TB) has long been recognized as a disease of poverty, yet most TB research does not measure poverty in a meaningful way. A new review in the journal BMC Global and Public Health examines existing methods for assessing socioeconomic status in TB studies and highlights their shortcomings.

Now a museum, the Saranac Laboratory was established in 1894 and was the first in the United States dedicated to studying tuberculosis.