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Jumbo Task: 400 Pills A Day For Elephants With TB In Pakistan

A team of doctors and vets in Pakistan has developed a novel treatment for a pair of elephants suffering from tuberculosis that involves feeding them at least 400 pills a day.

International Business Times

18th-century monk's anus was stuffed with wood chips and fabric to mummify him, researchers discover

An 18th-century Austrian monk who died of tuberculosis was mummified in an extremely unusual way.

LiveScience

Tuberculosis case is confirmed at Florida high school. Here’s what to know

Other students at the Fort Lauderdale school have been exposed to the potentially deadly bacterial infection

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Case of tuberculosis confirmed at Scottish school

A case of tuberculosis has been confirmed at a Scottish school ...

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Study Predicts Tens Of Millions Of Deaths If Trump Admin Pulls Funding For Overseas Disease Treatment Programs

A paper published as part of a project called Preprints with The Lancet models some 25 million additional deaths from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other diseases as a result of the U.S. pulling funding from disease prevention programs

Latin Times

Why is tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease, on the rise in the UK?

Tuberculosis (TB) cases rose 13 per cent in England last year, with increases among both immigrants and people born in the UK.

Euronews

Tuberculosis could end if there’s more US public health funding, experts say

Resurgence could be on horizon as outbreaks pick up speed in US and abroad amid public health program cuts

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From tapeworms to tuberculosis: The dangerous lengths women have gone to for ‘beauty’

For centuries, women have taken part in a laundry list of beauty hacks to meet appearance ideals, many of which have been dangerous, painful and even deadly

The Independent UK

April 3, 2025: Delhi’s air monitoring data is unreliable

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry visits the National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, which has one of the 38 continuous ambient air quality monitoring stations in Delhi. The PM 2.5 level was 21 and PM 10 hovered around 24. At 143, the AQI was in the…

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Last goats living on UK coastal site culled by National Trust

National Trust said it made the ‘difficult decision’ to cull the goats on Brean Down due to tuberculosis

The Independent UK

'We will fight for him': Author John Green meets Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient with drug-resistant disease

"At the time, I knew almost nothing about TB. To me, it was a disease of history — something that killed depressive 19th-century poets, not present-tense humans."

LiveScience

Tuberculosis cases are up among kids in Europe and Central Asia, health authorities warn

The report comes amid cuts to global aid, which health officials say could lead to a resurgence of TB.

Euronews

Tuberculosis cases in the US rose to their highest levels in more than a dozen years

Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years

The Independent UK

'We have to fight for a better end': Author John Green on how threats to USAID derail the worldwide effort to end tuberculosis

Live Science spoke with author John Green about his latest book, which explores both the history and current realities of tuberculosis.

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International Business Times

'Getting Scary': US Aid Cuts Undermine Global Fight Against TB

The Trump administration's sweeping foreign aid cuts will send tuberculosis cases and deaths soaring around the world, humanitarian workers have warned.

The Conversation

From TB to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension, but it’s the foundation of public health

Federal datasets began disappearing from public view on Jan. 31, 2025, in response to executive orders from President Donald Trump. Among those were the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which asks respondents about their gender identity and sexual orientation and tracks behaviors like smoking and…

The Guardian - UK

USAid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’

Projects to detect, treat and research new ways to fight TB among those disrupted by sudden funding freeze

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The Conversation

Why increasing rates of tuberculosis in the UK and US should concern everyone

With one of the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in US history, Kansas has more to worry about than its recent Super Bowl defeat. During the past year, 67 people with TB have been detected. This comes on the back of increasing rates of TB in the US year on year…

The Conversation

As tuberculosis cases rise in the US and worldwide, health officials puzzle over the resurgence of a disease once in decline

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties and continues as of early March 2025. To date, 147 people have been reportedly diagnosed with TB in the…

The Conversation

COVID-19 is the latest epidemic to show biomedical breakthroughs aren’t enough to eliminate a disease

The COVID-19 pandemic transformed over the past five years from a catastrophic threat that has killed over 7 million people to what most people regard today as a tolerable annoyance that doesn’t require precaution. Nonetheless, COVID-19 continues to kill over 2,000 people per month globally and cause severe illness in…

The Independent UK

White House plans to bring back Title 42 to limit border crossings, report says

Trump administration could invoke public health order that smears asylum-seeking immigrants as possible disease carriers that could spread tuberculosis

Salon

Why we're still fighting tuberculosis

Slashes in federal funding for disease surveillance could once more make old diseases formidable foes

Latin Times

Kansas Tuberculosis Outbreak Caused by 'Weakening of Our Public Health Infrastructure,' Expert Warns

Kansas is experiencing one of the largest TB outbreaks on record as experts warn of a growing public health crisis, worsened by legislation limiting response.

The Guardian - US

Kansas reckons with large tuberculosis outbreak as health officials hamstrung

Experts fear consequences of Trump’s restrictions on CDC as state sees one of largest outbreaks ever recorded in US

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