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News Articles: tuberculosis

A physician in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, examines an x-ray of a tuberculous patient.

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  • Global Health

Tuberculosis rates plunge when families living in poverty get a monthly cash payout

A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.

January 03, 2025
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
A patient who was diagnosed with tuberculosis holds his chest x-rays while consulting with a doctor at the Médecins Sans Frontières clinic in Mumbai, which treats people with drug-resistant tuberculosis.

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  • Global Health

TB reclaims title of deadliest infectious disease. That's an 'outrage' says WHO

DIslodged by COVID early in the pandemic, tuberculosis is once again the infectious disease that takes the most lives each year. And the number of cases set a new record. What's going on?

November 08, 2024
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By:
  • Fran Kritz
A relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient

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  • Health

Public health officials return to Walton High School to read TB test results

About 300 students at Walton High School in Cobb County who may have been exposed to tuberculosis (TB) underwent skin tests on Tuesday.

October 30, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Pond Inlet on Baffin Island is one of the Inuit communities in the Canadian arctic facing a TB outbreak.

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  • Global Health

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.

May 02, 2024
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By:
  • Melody Schreiber
GPB News NPR

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  • Global Health

NPR quiz goes global: Test your knowledge of milestones and millstones in 2023

Test your knowledge of global health and development with 12 questions about landmark events of 2023.

January 14, 2024
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By:
  • Marc Silver
A doctor checks chest x-rays of a tuberculosis patient at a clinic in Mumbai, India, that treats those with drug-resistant strains of the disease. The World Health Organization has called for the eradication of this ancient and deadly infectious disease.

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  • Global Health

WHO says we can 'write the final chapter in the story of TB.' How close are we?

The pandemic brought notable setbacks in the effort to eradicate tuberculosis, which is likely to regain its notorious title of deadliest infectious disease in 2023. But there are signs of progress.

November 16, 2023
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By:
  • Fran Kritz
X-rays of a patient with tuberculosis, taken in November 2002 in New Jersey, show damage to the lungs.

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  • National

A woman is in custody after refusing tuberculosis treatment for more than a year

A judge in Tacoma, Wash., approved a civil warrant for the woman's arrest after 16 requests for intervention from local health officials. Police observed the woman board a bus and visiting a casino.

June 03, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
Munyaradzi Musvosvi, a researcher who works for the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, in a storage facility at the University of Cape Town that holds in deep freeze the blood samples of people exposed to TB. He's part of a team working to develop a potential mRNA vaccine by looking at the immune cells in the blood samples.

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  • Health

Frozen cells reveal a clue for a vaccine to block the deadly TB bug

Tuberculosis kills 1.6 million a year — the second deadliest infectious disease after COVID-19. Using immune cells and mRNA technology, scientists in South Africa are working on a new vaccine.

March 06, 2023
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
A poster photo of U.S. Marine Corps veteran and Russian prisoner Trevor Reed is hung in Lafayette Park near the White House on Wednesday.

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  • World

Trevor Reed's family says he's back in a Russian prison hospital but not getting care

Reed's family says he has tuberculosis symptoms and lost 7 pounds in five days during a hunger strike. They are calling for the Biden administration to help bring the Marine veteran home.

April 04, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Refugees from Ukraine, which has a high rate of tuberculosis, are often screened for the disease. Above: Dr. Natalie Wöhrle analyzes the X-ray images of the lungs from a screening in Gauting, Germany, on March 12.

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  • Global Health

Russia's war with Ukraine is devastating for Ukraine's war on TB

The country has a high rate of tuberculosis. They'd been making progress but then came the pandemic ... and now the war. Doctors worryi about increased spread of this contagious and deadly disease.

March 19, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Health workers share information about tuberculosis with residents of aslum neighborhoods in New Delhi. India has the greatest number of TB cases in the world.

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  • Global Health

Before COVID, TB was the world's worst pathogen. It's still a 'monster' killer

It was under control. And then it wasn't. In her new book Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History, VIdya Krishnan shows how "we repeat the same disease-spreading mistakes over and over."

February 13, 2022
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By:
  • Susan Brink
A patient with tuberculosis waits to be seen by a doctor at the Sizwe Tropical Diseases Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. Annual deaths from the infectious disease are on the rise after years of progress.

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  • Global Health

Global TB deaths are rising — and COVID gets the blame

After years of progress in reducing the number of annual deaths from tuberculosis, the number of cases of the infectious respiratory disease went up in 2020.

October 15, 2021
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien

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  • Global Health

Global Causes Of Death: Significant Shifts From 2000 To 2019

The No. 1 and 2 causes of death remain the same, but there have been a number of notable changes. And now there's a new disease to assess on the global landscape: COVID-19.

December 11, 2020
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien

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