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When doctors describe your brain scan as a “starry sky,” it’s not good TB is the deadliest infection in the world—but it doesn't often look like this.

Explore the complete guide to tuberculosis, from bacterial causes and early warning signs to modern treatment approaches and essential prevention strategies ...

Tuberculosis can also remain dormant for decades, even across a person’s entire lifetime. A vaccine for TB provides some protection for infants and children, but is less effective for adults and ...

Here's what tuberculosis is, how it's transmitted and how you can expect to have it treated if it affects you or someone you love.

Tuberculosis, a bacterial infection usually found in the lungs, remains the world’s top infectious killer, causing 1.25 million deaths worldwide in 2023, according to the World Health ...

John Green’s new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, reveals how social injustice sustains the disease, despite available cures and vaccines.

Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death around the world, outpaced only by COVID-19 during the first three years of the pandemic. Reports of TB date back to the time of Hippocrates ...

UNDERSTANDING TUBERCULOSIS Tuberculosis (TB) is a potentially serious infectious disease primarily affecting the lungs. Caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the disease is characterised by the ...

By retracting foreign aid, President Trump could make tuberculosis untreatable again.

Tuberculosis (TB) can enter the skin directly or move there from the blood, lymph nodes, or bones if it moves beyond the lungs. Learn more here.

The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.