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Few realise that tuberculosis (TB) has been the world’s deadliest infectious disease for decades – claiming over 1 million lives every year, briefly surpassed only by COVID-19. The number of ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a near-perfect predator. In 1882, Robert Koch, the physician who discovered the microbe, told a room full of scientists that it caused one in seven of all deaths.

NEWSCENTER FIVE. SHARMAN. THANK YOU FOR THAT. HEALTH OFFICIALS IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ARE WORKING TO STOP THE SPREAD OF TUBERCULOSIS. THEY ARE SEARCHING FOR ANYONE WHO MAY HAVE COME INTO ...

Tuberculosis (TB), a potentially fatal disease, had been almost wiped out in Britain by the 1970s. But there has been a dramatic rise in cases recently, especially in and around London, where 40 ...

The World Health Organization warned last week that the sweeping funding cuts could endanger millions of lives, since many countries depend on foreign aid for TB prevention, testing and treatment.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that usually affects the lungs but can spread to other parts of the body, including the skin. Once it reaches the skin, TB can cause a variety of lesions ...

FILE: A digitally colourised scanning electron microscopic image depicts a grouping of red-coloured, rod-shaped Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria which cause tuberculosis in human beings.

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague – a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ice age. Today, the disease – passed from those who are actively sick to ...

The Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid delivered through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and the subsequent shutdown and dismantling of the agency altogether, has sent ...

Tuberculosis remains India's deadliest infectious disease, accounting for 26% of global TB cases, according to the latest World Health Organization data. Despite years of progress, India is now ...