Parents in Pitt County were notified this week that a middle school student tested positive for tuberculosis (TB). “Though there is no immediate public health risk from this exposure, we are ...

After an active case of tuberculosis was detected in the Sacramento area, you may be wondering about your risks of contracting the highly contagious disease. An individual with contagious tuberculosis ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes the potentially fatal respiratory infection of the same name, was found to use a system known as PrrAB to ...

A man in Ireland earned the unpleasant distinction of developing an exceedingly rare infection on his penis—one that has a puzzling origin, but may be connected to his work with dead animals.

NEW YORK (AP) — The number of people diagnosed with tuberculosis worldwide rose again last year, eclipsing 2023’s record total, World Health Organization officials said Wednesday. About 8.3 million ...

Researchers in Boston are working to determine if an old tuberculosis vaccine could be the key to treating type 1 diabetes. At just 14-years-old, Cam Power has not known a life without diabetes. "I ...

A newly approved diagnostic test could give UK clinicians a more accurate way to identify latent and active tuberculosis (TB). The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has ...

Across Europe, tuberculosis (TB) is once again raising alarm, particularly the extensively drug-resistant form (XDR-TB), which is proving as deadly as before antibiotics were discovered. A large ...

WMUR IS MIKE MOSES HAS THOSE DETAILS. I RECENTLY FOUND OUT THAT THERE WAS TB GOING AROUND. CHRIS WILLETT IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE TWO NEW CONFIRMED CASES OF TUBERCULOSIS. JUST HOW CONTAGIOUS IT IS. AND ...

A month after a Western North Carolina individual was diagnosed with tuberculosis, news outlets are reporting on another case in Wake County. ABC reported Sept. 8 that a case of TB was present in Wake ...