After an active case of tuberculosis was detected in the Sacramento area, you may be wondering about your risks of contracting the highly contagious disease. An individual with contagious tuberculosis ...
The San Francisco Public Health Department has launched a "large-scale TB contact investigation" after a tuberculosis outbreak this week at Archbishop Riordan High School infected at least three ...
In early 2024, an invisible threat came to Kansas City, Missouri. Over the course of nearly two years, it infected 68 people and resulted in two deaths. Officials didn’t have to look far for the ...
While for the past 30 years, the incidence of active tuberculosis (TB) in the US has been lower than the global incidence, untreated latent TB infection (LTBI) is thought to account for the majority ...