Meanwhile, those with TB disease fall sick often have symptoms including chest pain, coughing up blood, fatigue, weakness, fever, chills, sweating, lack of appetite and weight loss, the CDC said ...

A new strain of drug-resistant tuberculosis that is "virtually untreatable" is raising alarm among public health officials, even as the less virulent, and much more common, form of TB continues to ...

CDC officials expected TB numbers would rise, but the 2023 count "was a little more than was expected," Dr. Philip LoBue, director of the agency's Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, told The ...

The US incidence of tuberculosis, or TB, increased slightly last year after a substantial 20.2% decline in 2020 and a 9.8% increase in 2021, according to the data published in the CDC’s ...

Directly observed therapy for TB treatment, via video, gets CDC nod. By Helen Branswell March 23, 2023. Reprints. Adobe.

TB surge: CDC asked state to tell public Emails reveal national experts politely urged action as they worried about surging Jacksonville outbreak. Stacey Singer. Florida’s TB outbreak, ...

The TB lab at the CDC was closed after recent safety issues. A lab crucial to diagnosing cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis at the CDC has reopened. CNN values your feedback ...

U.S. cases of tuberculosis fell 6.4 percent in 2011 to an all-time low, but missed a national target of eliminating the disease as cases among foreign-born individuals persisted, health officials ...

Last year, the U.S. saw more than 8,700 cases of TB, according to CDC data. Although TB cases have been steadily declining since the mid 1990s , rates increased in 2021, 2022 and 2023, with 2023 ...

ATLANTA — Health officials say there’s a faster treatment for people who have tuberculosis but aren’t infectious. A combination of pills knocks it out in just three months instead of nine.

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