Such symptomatic cases are known as active TB cases, which can be detected through clinical examination, chest X-ray or sputum examination. A person with active pulmonary TB can release infectious ...

TB can be found in every major city, in every country. Failing to control it threatens global health security. Now is not the ...

These stages are known as primary, latent and active. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. In the primary stage of TB infection, most people don't have symptoms or experience ...

The Lake County Health Department confirmed to the school district that the person is isolated from others and undergoing treatment.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A case of tuberculosis occurred at the freshman/sophomore campus at Waukegan High School, officials said.

Health officials issued a warning this week after someone at a suburban Chicago high school was diagnosed with active tuberculosis. According to the Lake County Health Department, the case was ...

M. tuberculosis explodes outward, and active disease begins. Certain triggers make the disease more likely to go from latent to active, including air pollution and an immune system weakened by ...

Narva Hospital reported that during routine testing, traces of a TB pathogen were incidentally detected in samples ... and we will keep them under active pulmonary specialist monitoring for two years.