Ahead of World Tuberculosis Day on 24 March, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that cuts in global funding are significantly curtailing efforts to fight the disease. While not directly ...

Michigan has the only persisting bovine tuberculosis outbreak in wild deer anywhere in the U.S. — and it occasionally spills ...

Spreading easily through the air, Mycobacterium tuberculosis can establish a chronic infection in human lungs, which can turn into a deadly respiratory disease. A safe vaccine called BCG ...

Tuberculosis remains the number one cause of infectious mortality worldwide A candidate mRNA vaccine that boosts immunity ...

A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...

A live-attenuated tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate in development at Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) elicits a much more balanced and effective immune response compared to the ...

A recent study confirms that the 100-year-old BCG vaccine does not protect against COVID-19, challenging early assumptions ...

Tuberculosis vaccine shows superior immune response protection in nonhuman primates when compared to existing BCG vaccine A ...

Taking a step further to achieve total eradication of tuberculosis, the Rajasthan government on Tuesday launched the Adult BCG vaccination campaign.

The new treatment regimen, recommended for patients aged three months to 16 years with non-severe drug-susceptible TB, is ...