THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. — Jerry and Cheryl Sistad noticed something strange about Minnesota’s Bovine Tuberculosis Management Zone map at last week’s Thief River Falls TB informational meeting. The ...
A Phase 3 trial is underway for what could be the first vaccine to help prevent pulmonary TB in adolescents and adults, the most common form of the disease, and the first new TB vaccine in more than a ...
Advocates and survivors who know the realities of TB and its social, economic and cultural components of care know that comprehensive high-quality care is well beyond diagnosis and treatment alone.
The National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination works with state and local health agencies to prevent and control tuberculosis. This is the primary site for US ...
Brentwood Borough School District will remain open as officials there and at the Allegheny County Health Department continue to investigate the presence of tuberculosis in a student and five employees ...
Once a feared and incurable disease in Japan, patients with tuberculosis fell for the first time below 10 to 9.2 per 100,000 population in Japan in 2021, the health ministry reported on Aug. 30. That ...
It may sound like a disease of the past, but tuberculosis, or TB, is still a real concern today. And as the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In other words, the best ...
As livestock producers work to protect their herds from bovine tuberculosis, University of Minnesota Extension has activated a coordinated system of web and toll-free phone line resources, and will ...
The new programme will be introduced from September this year. The World Health Organization estimates one person is infected with TB every second. It kills two million people annually, mainly in ...
A Miramar high school student has contracted the lung disease tuberculosis and passed it to a family member, prompting health officials to order the testing of more than 200 of her schoolmates ...