TB Traveler Exposes Diagnosis Problems The Georgia man who flew to Europe while infected with a dangerous form of tuberculosis reveals a fundamental problem in controlling the disease. It takes ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is at once a textbook disease and a political reality: a bacterial process that is microbiologically well understood — and yet cannot simply be “treated away” globally. Derek Sloan, ...

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 ...

India likes to describe its tuberculosis response in the language of ambition. Elimination targets, global leadership, mission-mode action are catchphrases. Yet drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in ...

The largest ever survey of drug-resistant tuberculosis has unveiled “worrying” levels of the disease, with health experts warning that the issue is a global problem. Patients in former Soviet states ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Visiting North Korea is by no means easy. To get in, you typically need to bring an asset that the country’s ruling elite desperately needs — such as hard cash to spend on a ...

Cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in the former Soviet Union are rising at an alarming rate and pose a global problem, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, ...