Early detection and treatment plans have helped limit further disease transmission in the US. However, we've seen numbers creep back up over the last few years, possibly partly due to reduced access ...
Tuberculosis, the world’s oldest and deadliest pandemic, has been plaguing us for well over 4,000 years, with a relative of TB bacteria detected since the dinosaur age, and an ancestor having ...
Working toward more effective tuberculosis (TB) vaccines, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed two strains of ...
What are the signs and symptoms of tuberculosis? The two types of TB infections have different signs and symptoms, the CDC and John Hopkins Medicine said. "Even if you do not feel sick ...
As Kansas deals with one of the largest tuberculous outbreaks in the nation since the 1950s, Californians may be wondering whether they’re at risk. The Kansas outbreak, described by health officials ...
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious infectious disease with considerable fatality, typically affecting the pulmonary system and, rarely, other body organs including the oral cavity.
Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 ...
No, you probably didn’t get tuberculosis at Sunday’s Chiefs game. A yearlong outbreak of the bacterial disease in the Kansas City metropolitan area has raised concerns about spread locally and ...
The Kansas City, Missouri, Health Department announced on Friday, Jan. 31, that the metro continues to maintain low numbers of tuberculosis cases with no signs of an active outbreak. Since 2015 ...