While there is a vaccine for TB, it’s not generally recommended in the U.S. because of the low risk of severe disease in the ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Overall, 9,615 TB cases were reported in 2023, a 16% ...

The United States experienced the lowest number of tuberculosis cases in 2016 since the CDC began tallying TB infections in 1953, according to the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. While ...

Tuberculosis (TB) just resurfaced in suburban Illinois, and critics say Washington's retreat from global health programs could let the world's deadliest infection stage a comeback at home. TB killed ...

TB disease affects Asian persons more than others.‎ In 2023, TB disease was reported among 2,887 non-Hispanic Asian persons in the United States. This accounts for 30.0% of all people reported with TB ...

Health officials are trying to identify who else may have been exposed.

A lab crucial to diagnosing cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reopened, according to the CDC. The Atlanta lab was closed several weeks ago ...

Federal health officials stand by their quarantine of an Atlanta lawyer they believed had a dangerous form of tuberculosis, even though new tests show he has a less severe form of the disease. “The ...

A federal microbiologist, the father-in-law of the man quarantined with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis, will be investigated to see how he was involved in the case, the Centers for Disease ...

A lab crucial to diagnosing cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reopened, according to the CDC. The Atlanta lab was closed several weeks ago ...