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

The WHO reports that TB cases hit a record high in 2023, with more than 8 million diagnoses and 1.25 million deaths, meaning it is once again the leading cause of death from infectious disease after ...

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 ...

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

Tuberculosis is once again the world’s deadliest infectious disease, and the number of people newly diagnosed with TB reached ...

In the highest tally ever recorded for tuberculosis cases, the World Health Organization report that over 8 million people ...

Many of new TB cases were driven by five major risk factors: undernutrition, HIV infection, alcohol use disorders, smoking (especially among men) and diabetes. Tackling these issues, along with ...

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

TB remains a social disease in its causation and its outcomes. Social factors associated with poverty, such as overcrowding and undernutrition increase the risk of TB. Most other risk factors ...