As tuberculosis cases rise in the US and worldwide, health officials puzzle over the resurgence of a disease once in decline
Reports of TB date back to around 410-400 B.C.E., when the physician Hippocrates termed the disease phthisis, an archaic word that means a progressive “wasting away,” due to the way people with the ...
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Tuberculosis (TB) Information for Health Professionals
and LTBI treatment is referred to as “Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment (TPT)” to reflect updated terminology in the Canadian Tuberculosis Standards, 8th ed., 2022. New first-line recommendations for ...
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John Green discusses tuberculosis, health inequities during Shannon Hall lecture
Author John Green visited the University of Wisconsin’s Shannon Hall at Memorial Union on Feb. 18 to talk about the upcoming release of his new book, “Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and ...
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Dr. Cory Franklin: Should we be concerned about the tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas?
Why doesn’t the public know more about the troubling tuberculosis outbreak in eastern Kansas? The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) is tracking 384 individuals with suspected ...
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Cases of the world’s deadliest infectious disease have been increasing in the U.S. in recent years
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
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Is there a tuberculosis outbreak in central Ohio? What the data show
No, there is not a tuberculosis outbreak in Ohio. Public hackles in central Ohio have been raised over the bacterial disease, also referred to as TB, after a high school student in Whitehall ...