For centuries, it was believed that tuberculosis spread primarily when a vulnerable person spent hours in a poorly ventilated ...

Now for a global snapshot. According to estimates provided by the United Nations-affiliated STOP TB Partnership (STP), over ...

Learn about the primary ways tuberculosis spreads through airborne transmission, high-risk settings, and effective prevention ...

Tuberculosis is a "near-perfect predator," John Green said in his book "Everything is Tuberculosis." The bacterial infection, ...

These are some of the most common questions surrounding this disease. The last Monday, the World Tuberculosis Day was celebrated with the aim of raising awareness about the need to raise more funds to ...

While medical guidelines emphasise airborne transmission, the possibility of TB spreading through close physical contact ...

Each year, tuberculosis kills some 1.25 million people globally and more than 10 times that number become infected with the disease annually, according to the World Health Organization.

Although the disease is now treatable, the emergence of drug-resistant strains could complicate care. And millions of ...

John Green on the difficult campaign to eradicate a deadly disease. ‘Funding for TB is in crisis,’ says John Green, author of ...

TB anywhere is TB everywhere,” said tuberculosis expert Philip Hopewell, MD, in the latest ATS Breathe Easy podcast. The U.S. has one of the lowest incidence rates of TB in the world, yet in January, ...

In a recent announcement calling for greater tuberculosis awareness, the San Diego County health department indicates that ...

Post-tuberculosis sequelae reduce life expectancy and quality-adjusted life expectancy among tuberculosis survivors in the ...