The Latest Breaking News from Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis Cases Hit Record High: WHO

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.

International Business Times · Oct 30, 2024

Over 8 Million New Cases Reported As Tuberculosis Resurges As Top Killer: WHO

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.

Medical Daily · Oct 30, 2024

WHO says 2023 saw the highest number of tuberculosis cases on record

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

The Independent UK · Oct 29, 2024

10 of the deadliest superbugs that scientists are worried about

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

LiveScience · Aug 9, 2024

Study finds strains of tuberculosis that are most infectious

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:

Dynamite News · Aug 2, 2024

TB: gene editing could add new power to a 100-year-old vaccine

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.

The Conversation · Jul 22, 2024

Why does plague keep plaguing humans?

Throughout human history, different infectious diseases have taken the mantle of “most deadly disease” infecting humans. In the past century alone, the human population has experienced many pandemics: COVID, HIV and various influenza outbreaks – to name a few. Some have lasted for centuries and persist today, such as tuberculosis.…

The Conversation · Jul 19, 2024

South Africa drops probe of J&J after it agrees to lower price of TB drug and withdraws patent

Medical advocacy groups welcomed Johnson & Johnson’s decision not to enforce its patent on a critical tuberculosis medication, allowing its production at much lower prices, after South African authorities opened an investigation into the conglomerate

The Independent UK · Jul 9, 2024

Three animals that can detect disease in humans

When it comes to accurately diagnosing a disease, you might think you need expensive, high-tech machinery and equipment capable of looking deep beneath the skin at what’s going on in the body. But while these high-tech implements certainly are incredible, they aren’t the only instruments capable of detecting disease. In…

The Conversation · Jul 5, 2024

Woman, 24, dies on Qantas flight from Melbourne just before takeoff

Manpreet Kaur was feeling unwell before boarding the flight and reportedly died from tuberculosis

The Independent UK · Jul 2, 2024