Tuberculosis spreads through germs released when a person with TB in their lungs coughs, speaks or sings. These bacteria can stay in the air for prolonged periods of time and are more likely to spread ...

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An outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City area has grown into one of the largest ever recorded in the United States, ...

However, most people get infected with TB don’t get sick, according to NCDHSS. That’s because their bodies can fight the ...

an organisation that advocates for the interests of TB survivors, especially offering counselling services to people suffering from TB and carrying out sensitisation. The organisation is based in ...

North Carolina faces an alarming resurgence of tuberculosis (TB) cases after enjoying over three decades of declining numbers ...

A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has caused dozens of illnesses and at least two deaths, according to the state health department.

The number of people suffering from TB was 1,796 last year, and 55 people died of it. As part of the drive to wipe out TB, patients visiting hospitals and health centres are screened. Twenty-three ...

Two Kansas counties are reporting active cases of TB in the largest reported outbreak of the respiratory disease Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared ...

Health officials have said the risk to the public is low from the current tuberculosis, or TB, outbreak among dozens of ...

By Neil Vigdor Kansas is grappling with what state health officials say is one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks there since the 1950s, one that has infected dozens of people. The epicenter of ...