Each year, tuberculosis kills some 1.25 million people globally and more than 10 times that number become infected with the disease annually, according to the World Health Organization.

When health workers stopped visiting her home in Pakistan to administer tuberculosis medication, Ratna Jamni began dragging herself to a clinic “step by painful step, when even standing feels ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a near-perfect predator. In 1882, Robert Koch, the physician who discovered the microbe, told a room full of scientists that it caused one in seven of all deaths.

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague — a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ice age. Today, the disease — passed from those who are actively sick to ...

Will you support our work and become a Vox Member today? The author John Green on how Trump cuts to aid will kill TB patients — and what we can do about it. Dylan Scott covers health for Vox ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that usually affects the lungs but can spread to other parts of the body, including the skin. Once it reaches the skin, TB can cause a variety of lesions ...

EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, by John Green Tuberculosis kills more people — over a million a year worldwide — than any other infectious ...

A Colonia High School student who tested positive for tuberculosis is responding well to treatment, the school district announced late last week after it was notified by the Middlesex County ...

John Green's new book "Everything is Tuberculosis" will release on Tuesday. The Indy-based author kicked off his book tour in Indianapolis over the weekend. Here's everything you need to know.

Carolina, an African giant pouched rat, recently retired from her job of detecting tuberculosis cases medical tests had missed. At her retirement this past November, colleagues lined up to applaud ...