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Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown how the bacteria causing tuberculosis (TB) directly cross the brain's ...
In a new video, Stop TB outlines how the international community is mobilizing to fight this deadly disease in spite of low funding and why it is more important than ever finally to eliminate TB.
It shouldn’t be difficult to prevent TB epidemics. We simply need to identify everyone who has the disease and treat them, and also identify their contacts who are at risk of getting TB themselves.
Some programs, like Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility ... Nonetheless, warning signs are lighting up – in January, the Kansas City metro area was hit by a wave of TB, causing dozens ...
Here’s what we know about the situation in Kansas, how Delaware infection rates compare and how to prevent the spread of TB. Neonatologist Valentina Gerginova holds a dose of BCG vaccine in Vita ...
"Every undetected case is an outbreak waiting to happen, yet we have the power to stop TB before it starts." There were 9,633 cases of TB disease reported in the U.S. in 2023, according to the CDC ...
Findings from the study, published in Nature Communications, could lead to more effective and less onerous therapies that reduce lung damage in TB survivors. It could also prevent lung dysfunction ...
Geneva — The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) and the Stop TB Partnership yesterday signed a new collaboration framework with the aim of increasing momentum ...
Sponsor Message “The fact that TB still kills and sickens so many people is an outrage, when we have the tools to prevent it, detect it and treat it,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ...
And while rats may be much-maligned in society, Carolina and her peers in East Africa have raised detection rates for TB—the leading cause of death worldwide by infectious disease—by 40 ...
Here’s what we know about the situation in Kansas, how Delaware infection rates compare and how to prevent the spread of TB. Tuberculosis is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis.