The toll on children also appears to be growing, with about 7,500 TB cases among kids under age 15 in the European region in 2023 – a 9.6 per cent increase from the year before, the report found.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than half a million children who fall ill with tuberculosis each year are at risk of dying because of a lack of child-friendly treatments, experts said.

New findings also indicate that children who live in settings with a high burden of TB have a consistently high annual risk of developing TB infection throughout childhood. An estimated 1.2 ...

In 2023, 1,689 children and young adolescents below the age of 15 years were diagnosed with tuberculosis in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries. Cristea et al ...

As many as 32,000 children worldwide become sick each year with a drug-resistant "superbug" strain of tuberculosis, according to new estimates by U.S. researchers that for the first time quantify ...

Unfortunately, the global incidence of MDR-TB is rapidly rising – reports from 2014 estimate that ~3.5% of all TB cases were multidrug-resistant. Nations with high populations and low to low ...

Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Tahmeed Ahmed, Mark A.C. Pietroni, Abu S.G. Faruque, Hasan Ashraf, Pradip K. Bardhan, Md. Iqbal Hossain, Sumon Kumar Das, Mohammed Abdus Salam, Pulmonary Tuberculosis in ...

Dr. Kathleen Jordan pulled a diversion from her physician’s bag of tricks to test thousands of southwestern Minnesota school kids for tuberculosis from 1930 into the ‘60s.

TB is becoming more common in the U.S., as the number of TB cases increased from 2014 to 2015 after having declined yearly from 1993 through 2014, according to the CDC. More articles on tuberculosis: ...

CHICAGO - As many as 32,000 children worldwide become sick each year with a drug-resistant "superbug" strain of tuberculosis, according to new estimates by U.S.