Currently, several states have outbreaks. In Kansas City, where cases have increased 148%, two deaths have been reported ...

The smartphone-sized, battery-powered test is a cost-effective tool that can improve TB diagnoses, particularly in rural areas where facilities and equipment are less accessible. Dr. Tony Hu, a Tulane ...

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.

Florida recorded 681 cases of TB in 2024, about 9% more than the previous year, federal data shows. California had the highest number of reported TB cases in 2024, with 2,100 cases. More than 30 other ...

Has the recent Tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas got you worried about catching TB? Learn about the top symptoms to look out for and explore some tips on how to stop the spread. Taylor Leamey writes ...

It’s tuberculosis. Since its diagnosis in 1882, it’s killed more than a billion people — more than malaria, HIV/AIDS, smallpox, influenza, cholera and the plague combined. Tuberculosis has ...

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 ...

Dylan Scott covers health for Vox, guiding readers through the emerging opportunities and challenges in improving our health. He has reported on health policy for more than 10 years, writing for ...

EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, by John Green Tuberculosis kills more people — over a million a year worldwide — than any other infectious ...

The cover of "Everything is Tuberculosis" and author John Green. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House and Marina Waters) Author John Green won acclaim for fiction like “The Fault in Our Stars,” a ...

That is until staff revealed that Henry was a patient with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis — and that he was 17. Henry was small because he grew up malnourished. At age 5, he became ill with ...

Tuberculosis has taken the lives of notable figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, George Orwell, Frederic Chopin and Charles IX, among others. And it’s still being transmitted in ...