FOR many years past Mongolia has been loosely divided into two areas ... a high mortality rate among children, widespread tuberculosis, and general ignorance of the most elementary rules of sanitation ...

European tuberculosis surveillance report underscores the gravity of the situation in the WHO European region.1 Across 53 ...

Each year, tuberculosis kills some 1.25 million people globally and more than 10 times that number become infected with the disease annually, according to the World Health Organization.

Monday was World Tuberculosis Day and ... residents with countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mongolia and the Philippines listed as having some of the highest rates globally.

U.S.A.I.D. Global Health 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.

EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, by John Green Tuberculosis kills more people — over a million a year worldwide — than any other infectious ...

Candidate transmission survival genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2025; 122 (10) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2425981122 Cite This Page : ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a near-perfect predator. In 1882, Robert Koch, the physician who discovered the microbe, told a room full of scientists that it caused one in seven of all deaths.

A Colonia High School student who tested positive for tuberculosis is responding well to treatment, the school district announced late last week after it was notified by the Middlesex County ...

Globally, tuberculosis is responsible for the most deaths of any infectious disease. Around 1.25 million people died from the bacterial infection in 2023, the latest data available, and new cases ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that usually affects the lungs but can spread to other parts of the body, including the skin. Once it reaches the skin, TB can cause a variety of lesions ...