Improprieties led CDC director to instruct labs to stop transferring biological materials Ban meant other labs could no longer get the CDC's help A lab crucial to diagnosing cases of drug-resistant ...

New CDC resource: The CDC's False-Positive Investigation Toolkit provides updated guidance for recognizing and investigating potential false-positive TB results. Why it matters: False-positive TB ...

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 ...

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City metropolitan area straddling Kansas and Missouri has made headlines across the country, a rare feat for an infectious disease too often ignored in ...

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 ...

In 2025, California had 5.5 tuberculosis cases per 100,000 people on average, according to the CDC’s latest provisional ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Overall, 9,615 TB cases were reported in 2023, a 16% ...

The United States experienced the lowest number of tuberculosis cases in 2016 since the CDC began tallying TB infections in 1953, according to the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. While ...

U.S. cases of tuberculosis fell 6.4 percent in 2011 to an all-time low, but missed a national target of eliminating the disease as cases among foreign-born individuals persisted, health officials said ...

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.

Improprieties led CDC director to instruct labs to stop transferring biological materials Ban meant other labs could no longer get the CDC's help A lab crucial to diagnosing cases of drug-resistant ...