The CDC is calling for improved donor screening and culture-based testing of donor organs and tissues after the second outbreak of tuberculosis in transplant cases. Between July 7 and 11, the CDC ...

Tuberculosis cases have increased for the second year in a row, according to a March 2023 report from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While incidence of tuberculosis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kansas is dealing with one of the largest outbreaks of tuberculosis recorded in a single year in the United States since the 1950s ...

While tuberculosis spread is not significant nationally, lack of awareness of the latent form of the condition raises ...

Contaminated bone allograft material from a single manufacturer led to five diagnosed cases of tuberculosis (TB) and two deaths so far, according to CDC data. In July, clinicians in two different ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Tuberculosis cases in the United States rose by 5% in 2022, elevating to the highest level since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic after decades of gradual decreases, the ...

Tuberculosis rates in the U.S. rose by 16 percent in 2023, marking the third year that cases went up following nearly 30 years of decline. In the most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from ...

Kansas is dealing with one of the largest outbreaks of tuberculosis recorded in a single year in the United States since the 1950s, state health officials say. The outbreak in the Kansas City area has ...

Tuberculosis, once called the “white plague” for the pallor it left on its victims, is staging a comeback in the United States. The CDC recorded 10,388 TB cases nationally in 2024, a 7.9% jump from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in the state's history, and while the risk of contracting the ...

In 2022, 8,300 cases of tuberculosis were identified in the United States, marking a 5 percent increase from the year before, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Tuberculosis (TB) rates in the U.S. rose by ...