Large tuberculosis outbreaks between 2017 and 2023 occurred at an average of 7 per year, often involving family and social networks.

Household contacts of people with tuberculosis (TB) have a high risk of getting TB themselves, at around 2%. It is currently ...

Household contacts of people with tuberculosis (TB) have a high risk of getting TB themselves, at around 2 percent. It is ...

A new study conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that in addition to providing significant improvements in public health, investment in the diagnosis and prevention of ...

Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) revaccination didn't help prevent sustained Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in initially uninfected adolescents without HIV in a randomized trial from South Africa.

Fifty large tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks were identified in 23 states during 2017 to 2023, mainly involving U.S.-born persons, ...

In 2025, California had 5.5 tuberculosis cases per 100,000 people on average, according to the CDC’s latest provisional ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains the world's leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. A new study recently published in The Lancet Global Health and supported by the World Health Organization ...

A 3-month, 12-dose regimen of rifapentine and isoniazid (INH) was less toxic, had better compliance, and showed similar efficacy as 6 months of INH alone in preventing tuberculosis (TB) in people with ...

Active cases of tuberculosis (TB) cost low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with heavy TB burdens $3.5 billion more in ...

Johor recorded 280 new tuberculosis (TB) cases in the first six weeks of this year with health authorities stepping up ...