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Tuberculosis still kills quietly, despite modern medicine. Stigma, lack of awareness and drug resistance, keep the crisis ...
New research estimates that as many as 2.2 million more people could die of tuberculosis if U.S. cuts to foreign aid become ...
Maine CDC confirmed three unrelated tuberculosis cases in Portland in September 2025, part of 28 statewide cases reported ...
In what is being hailed as the biggest breakthrough since the 1960s in treatment for latent tuberculosis — noninfectious TB without symptoms — researchers said Monday that weekly doses of a cocktail ...
This is a prospective observational study that will enroll individuals with suspected pulmonary TB and follow those with culture-confirmed, rifamycin-sensitive TB for 18 months, from the initiation of ...
A clinical drug trial conducted in five Sub-Sahara African countries shows that a shortened (four month) treatment for tuberculosis (TB) is well tolerated and may work well in subsets of TB patients, ...
Administering preventive tuberculosis (TB) treatment to contacts of infected people could significantly cut deaths, and save money, researchers say. Despite being preventable and curable, TB is the ...
Robert Koch's groundbreaking discoveries in microbiology, including identifying the cause of tuberculosis, revolutionized ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that up to 13 million people in the United States have latent tuberculosis (TB) infection. These patients do not feel sick, do not show ...
Trump’s US aid cuts could cause more than two million extra TB deaths in five years, study warns - America contributed at ...
The district says the school has alerted students and staff members who may have had "prolonged close contact" with the students while they were possibly contagious.