The Northern Kentucky Health Department said they are in the process of contacting people who could have been exposed to the ...

After an extensive review by the CDC’s internal Laboratory Safety Improvement Working Group, CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, has lifted the moratorium on a specific type of material transfer for ...

TB cases increased in 2021 and 2022 after a decline in 2020 The TB incidence may be returning to pre-pandemic levels Certain groups saw "considerable increases" in TB cases The U.S. saw an uptick in ...

tuberculosis The CDC announced an expected 3 to 10 month shortage of Aplisol (tuberculin purified protein derivative [PPD], diluted), used as an aid in the diagnosis of tuberculosis. The Centers for ...

Federal health officials stand by their quarantine of an Atlanta lawyer they believed had a dangerous form of tuberculosis, even though new tests show he has a less severe form of the disease.

A new strain of drug-resistant tuberculosis that is "virtually untreatable" is raising alarm among public health officials, even as the less virulent, and much more common, form of TB continues to ...