The Latest Breaking News from Tuberculosis

Cases rose by 11 per cent in 2023, according to the UK Health Security Agency

The World Health Organization’s 2024 Global Tuberculosis report reveals a sobering reality. Formidable challenges remain in the fight against the world’s most infectious disease: persistent poverty in high burden countries; increased rates of infection among vulnerable populations; the inability to find and treat all missing cases; and funding shortfalls.

A record 8.2 million new tuberculosis cases were diagnosed worldwide last year, the World Health Organization said -- the highest number since it began global TB monitoring in 1995.

Tuberculosis is making a resurgence, infecting an estimated 8.2 million people in 2023; the highest surge in new cases since 1995, a WHO report reveals.

TB likely returned to being the world’s top infectious disease killer after being replaced by COVID-19

Fifty-four-year old Suresh has been drinking alcohol since he was nine. He ran away from his house in Bengaluru and landed in Goa. He has been working in a bar ever since.

England’s controversial eradication scheme may have caused higher rates of disease in surrounding areas, research shows

Brian May's show highlights the Queen guitarist's four-year battle to rid a farm of bovine tuberculosis without harming badgers

These bacteria have evolved the ability to resist treatment with antibiotics, leaving doctors scrambling to help patients who are infected.

According to a recent study evaluating how various strains migrate across mixed populations in cosmopolitan cities, the chances of an exposed person becoming infected with TB vary depending on whether the human and the bacterium share a hometown. Read further on Dynamite News:

Tuberculosis dates back more than 9,000 years. It is the most infectious bacterial disease and in 2022 10.6 million people fell ill with it. Of these 23% occurred in Africa.