The highly contagious disease can be deadly if left untreated.

The CDC says the rise in large outbreaks signals persistent transmission among people facing social and economic instability.

Large tuberculosis outbreaks between 2017 and 2023 occurred at an average of 7 per year, often involving family and social networks.

State public health officials are adding more nuance on a previous claim about an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area. Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A tuberculosis outbreak that spanned seven states in 2023 has been tied to bone graft products from an infected donor — again. Two ...

New CDC resource: The CDC's False-Positive Investigation Toolkit provides updated guidance for recognizing and investigating potential false-positive TB results. Why it matters: False-positive TB ...

The number of U.S. tuberculosis cases in 2023 was the highest in a decade, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced. The CDC said on its website Thursday that "overall, cases ...

INDIANAPOLIS — As we continue to face the continued impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic had, one element that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is focusing on is another deadly ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found another unusual way animals can get humans sick. Luckily, this one doesn't involve kisses from your pet. After two decades of hunting, a ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday lifted a moratorium on transfers of inactivated materials from its clinical tuberculosis ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Tuberculosis (TB), one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, was diagnosed at lower-than-normal rates during the first years of the pandemic, federal officials said, ...