Here’s a look at Tuberculosis (also known as TB), an infection, caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis, that usually affects the lungs. It can also infect other parts of the body ...

Jess Talbot-Jones lives in Birstall, just outside Leicester - the city with the UK's highest TB rate for the past two years.

Scrofula occurs when tuberculosis bacteria affects an area outside the lungs. The main symptom is swelling on one side of the neck due to swollen lymph nodes. Scrofula is uncommon in the United States ...

The Christian County Health Department is working with the Ozark School District to ensure the safety of students and staff after someone within the district was diagnosed with tuberculosis.

Active tuberculosis (TB) disease can transmit from person to person, but latent TB infection is not contagious. Active TB typically transmits through droplets in the air. The bacterium Mycobacterium ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - Students at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale returned to classes wearing masks after a message was sent out to parents that an individual who was on-campus was ...

Kansas is dealing with one of the largest outbreaks of tuberculosis recorded in a single year in the United States since the ...