then all diseases … must rank far behind tuberculosis." By this measure, tuberculosis today still outranks most other infectious diseases for its sheer potential to affect vulnerable populations.

But without treatment at this stage, it can develop into active tuberculosis, with symptoms such as a cough that lasts more ...

Deaths from the infectious diseases HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis have fallen significantly in recent years, and they no longer appear on the list of top ten causes of death globally. However, these ...

Before war in the twentieth century, disease ... deaths. Tuberculosis killed 6,946 out of the 29,510 infected. America was an agricultural nation. Those from rural areas were exposed for the first ...

"Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by slow growing bacteria," said Dr. Nicholas Turner, an infectious disease specialist with Duke Health. "It usually affects the lungs, so most ...

More than 25 million people have died of AIDS since the first ... contagious disease caused by a virus. Typhoid fever kills around 216,000 people a year. Tuberculosis, an infectious bacterial ...