Tuberculosis lives and thrives in the lungs. When the bacteria that cause the disease are coughed into the air, they are ...

Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death around the world, outpaced only by COVID-19 during the first three ...

The best-selling author “got a little emotional” while talking with The Times about the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Listen to the conversation.

TB can be found in every major city, in every country. Failing to control it threatens global health security. Now is not the ...

Actually getting treatment is key: The World Health Organization (WHO) says that for two-thirds of TB patients who don't get ...

TB is an infectious disease caused by bacteria that most often affects the lungs. It spreads through the air when people with TB cough, sneeze or spit. Tuberculosis is preventable and curable.

In 2023, commitments made at the UN High-Level Meeting on the Fight Against Tuberculosis offered a renewed sense of hope and purpose after the COVID-19 pandemic.1 Nevertheless, tuberculosis disease ...

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 ...

We can End TB: Commit, Invest, Deliver”, today, the urgency of ending the scourge of the world’s deadliest infectious disease—tuberculosis—is amplified and should be taken seriously by ...