Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Tuberculosis

Badger cull may have increased bovine TB risk in neighbouring herds – study

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

The Guardian - UK

"I now realise that to save the badgers, you have to save everybody": Brian May to host new BBC show The Badgers, The Farmers And Me

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

Louder

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

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

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

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

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

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

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

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

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

Tuberculosis triggered giant, crusty wart to sprout on man's hand

Around 20% of cases of tuberculosis affect organs other than the lungs, and some can cause warty plaques on the skin.

LiveScience

Kafka 100: a parade of men with no appetite from a writer consumed by thoughts of nourishment

There is a rather potent image of failure which recurs in the short stories and novels of Franz Kafka, the Czech writer who died of tuberculosis 100 years ago. The image is of a young man brimming with self-assurance who, without warning, is assailed by some irreproachable authority. He protests,…

The Conversation

Franz Kafka letter shows author’s anguished struggle with writer’s block

Letter to friend and publisher Albert Ehrenstein, to be auctioned in June, details struggle to write at time of tuberculosis diagnosis

The Guardian - UK

California city declares public health emergency after tuberculosis outbreak exposes 170 people

The Long Beach city council identified at least 14 cases of the disease

Latin Times

170 people 'likely exposed' to tuberculosis in Long Beach outbreak

Health officials have warned of an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Long Beach, California.

LiveScience

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Medical Daily

Tuberculosis Outbreak: 1 Dead, 9 Hospitalized In Long Beach; Officials Declare Health Emergency

An investigation revealed that approximately 170 people have likely been exposed to TB.

WEKU

Why does TB have such a hold on the Inuit communities of the Canadian Arctic?

Canada has one of the world's lowest rates of tuberculosis. Yet this deadly disease is surging among Indigenous people in this icy, remote part of the country.

The Hindu

Plight of tea garden workers becomes poll issues in Dibrugarh again

Health is also a major concern in tea gardens with at least one or two tuberculosis patients in most families and the outbreak of gastro-enteritis is common in these estates, said CPI-ML leader Subhas Sen, who works with tea garden workers.

International Business Times

Asia-Pacific Gets New Weapon In Fight Against Drug-resistant TB

A faster and vastly more effective treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis is being rolled out in the Asia-Pacific region, raising hopes of a "new era" in tackling one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Top News

Measles And TB Outbreaks In Chicago Migrant Shelters

Learn about the recent outbreaks of measles and tuberculosis in Chicago migrant shelters and the importance of vaccination and hygiene practices in prevent...

Medical Daily

Tuberculosis Cases Confirmed In Chicago Migrant Shelters: Know Symptoms Of Infection

The Chicago Department of Public Health has not disclosed the exact number of tuberculosis cases detected, but no reports exist of city residents contracting the infection from exposed migrants who tested positive.

The Hindu

Sanofi gets approval for alternative inactivated polio vaccine

Only recently, activists, public health experts, tuberculosis (TB) survivors, and people living with HIV had sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention to halt what they said were frequent shortages in the availability of anti-TB drugs.

Medical Daily

Tuberculosis Infection Linked To Increased Risk Of Various Cancers: Study

The study found that those with current or previous TB infection are more likely to have a diagnosis of a variety of cancers, including lung, blood, gynecological, and colorectal cancers.

France 24

Russian propaganda usurps RFI report and French armed forces website

Russian disinformation has created a fraudulent report purporting to come from our sister radio station RFI, insinuating that "Ukrainian soldiers sent for tuberculosis treatment in France" are responsible for France's recent rebound in the disease. Meanwhile, French authorities have taken down a fake French armed forces website, which invited French…

LiveScience

Uptick in tuberculosis raises alarm in California

California health officials warn that the number of active tuberculosis cases in the state rose last year.

The Hindu

Health Minister writes to Centre seeking urgent supply of DSTB drugs to Karnataka

Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao has written to the Centre seeking supply of drug-sensitive Tuberculosis (DSTB) drugs on an urgent basis to Karnataka

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Bharatiya Janata Party

the New England Journal of Medicine

15 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.