The COVID-19 pandemic has killed at least 7 million people worldwide as of December 2023. The virus has revealed systemic weaknesses in health systems, particularly in supply chains and service ...
The COVID-19 pandemic transformed over the past five years from a catastrophic threat that has killed over 7 million people to what most people regard today as a tolerable annoyance that doesn't ...
Global tuberculosis illness rates fell about 2% from 2023 to 2024, according to a World Health Organization report, after rising for three consecutive years due to COVID-related disruptions to ...
A new study found that reported diagnoses for tuberculosis were consistently lower than expected throughout the pandemic, even though incarceration rates remained largely consistent and TB detection ...
The ongoing yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in the Kansas City, Kansas, area continues to perplex health authorities, a full year after it began. The TB outbreak has led to 67 active cases that ...
A new study found that reported diagnoses for tuberculosis were consistently lower than expected throughout the pandemic, even though incarceration rates remained largely consistent and TB detection ...
An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties and continues as of early March ...
The number of people diagnosed with tuberculosis worldwide rose again last year, eclipsing 2023's record total.
In late February 2020, Martin Valencia Garcia was working as a community agent in Independencia, one of the denser districts of Lima, Peru. His job was to help people access tuberculosis diagnosis and ...
Health authorities in northeastern Poland are tracing contacts after a case of tuberculosis was confirmed in a teacher at a ...