The Sandakan magistrates' court also orders the accused to complete his tuberculosis treatment according to the prescribed requirements and duration.

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India’s tuberculosis (TB) incidence, with new cases emerging every year, fell by 21% — from 237 TB cases per lakh population in 2015 to 187 per lakh population in 2024 — almost double the pace of ...

"As long as you breathe, you are at risk anywhere in the world," says physician Lucica Ditiu. The risk she's referring to is catching tuberculosis. While it may seem like a disease from the past, this ...

There are three active cases of tuberculosis in Maine as of this week as TB continues to increase across the country, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported, according to the ...

USAID funding cuts for tuberculosis programs have resulted in an estimated 11,000 additional deaths. The cuts, implemented shortly after Trump's inauguration, could lead to a surge in global ...

Tuberculosis (TB) cases rose 13 per cent in England last year, with increases among both immigrants and people born in the UK. Anja Madhvani was already sick when she ran out of water in the middle of ...

When health workers stopped visiting her home in Pakistan to administer tuberculosis medication, Ratna Jamni began dragging herself to a clinic “step by painful step, when even standing feels ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties and continues as of early March ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a near-perfect predator. In 1882, Robert Koch, the physician who discovered the microbe, told a room full of scientists that it caused one in seven of all deaths. In 2023 ...

The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease. Global Health The United States ...

Health authorities are calling attention to a looming consequence of the Trump administration’s gutting of the U.S. Agency for International Development: the risk of a global surge in tuberculosis ...