Here's what tuberculosis is, how it's transmitted and how you can expect to have it treated if it affects you or someone you ...

Students at Archbishop Riordan High School have to submit a negative tuberculosis test before they can attend school events.

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 ...

Across the spectrum of human afflictions—from cancer to heart disease to rare genetic conditions—medical investigators are continually attempting to break new ground by developing better methods of ...

Though tuberculosis is rare in the United States as compared to developing countries, the region has some of the highest rates in the state.

In the wake of a recent outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) and latent TB cases at a local San Francisco high school, IGHS's Priya ...

San Francisco public health officials issued a health advisory after identifying a tuberculosis outbreak in a private ...

A new framework may better characterize the early stages of tuberculosis (TB) and improve research and clinical care, an international team of researchers said. Turning against the current "active" or ...

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District officials say in a letter to families that the person who contracted the viral infection is no longer contagious.

A private Catholic high school in California's Bay Area is dealing with an outbreak of tuberculosis, according to city health officials and multiple media reports.

Ocular TB is a rare eye disease due to infection from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the same bacterium that causes tuberculosis, commonly known as TB. TB symptoms usually start in the lungs, but they ...