When most of us think of serious diseases that kill millions of people, the ones that come to mind are often the ones that get the most attention: cancer, COVID-19, heart disease and diabetes. But a ...

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, per data from the World Health Organization. A person infected with the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about health and U.K. health policy. Although it's often thought of as a disease of the past, tuberculosis is still found ...

Tuberculosis, the world’s oldest and deadliest pandemic, has been plaguing us for well over 4,000 years, with a relative of ...

TB did come under tighter control in the U.S. in the 1950s, thanks to public health efforts and the discovery of the antibiotic streptomycin. In the 1980s, Reagan-era public health cuts and the AIDS ...

There were an estimated 490,000 new cases of drug-resistant TB in 2016. Tuberculosis, a lung disease most often transmitted by breathing infected particles in the air, is the ninth leading cause of ...

A highly contagious and potentially deadly disease is seeing sharp upticks—and that's in addition to the measles outbreak we're dealing with already. Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that ...

Kansas is experiencing its largest tuberculosis outbreak in history, with 67 active cases and two deaths. The outbreak is contained to specific areas in Kansas and poses a low risk to the general ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in the state's history, and while the risk of contracting the ...