Tuberculosis is again the leading cause of deaths from infectious disease after COVID-19 displaced it briefly during the ...

Background: Young children exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis have a high risk of disease progression following infection. This study aimed to determine risk factors for M. tuberculosis ...

“WHO urges all countries to make good on the concrete commitments they have made to expand the use of those tools, and to end ...

India tops the list of 30 countries with high burden of tuberculosis cases, according to the latest World Health Organisation ...

A prospective birth cohort study conducted in South Africa found that children who grow up in a setting where tuberculosis ...

Factors that can increase this risk include: having been diagnosed with a TB infection in the past 2 years not completing appropriate treatment for TB in the past injecting illegal drugs Children ...

In today’s Health Alert, Tuberculosis cases have hit record highs, with over 8 million people infected worldwide last year.

Increased awareness among healthcare providers and the increased risk groups, such as people living ... accessible to the ...

According to the Global Tuberculosis Report 2024, India had the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden in 2023. Over half the cases ...

The WHO said a significant number of new TB cases were driven by five major risk factors: undernutrition, HIV (human ...