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The impacts of tuberculosis (TB) are usually discussed in terms of public health and human suffering. Now, new research presented at the 2026 ATS International Conference shows that TB is also driving a massive global economic ...
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Superspreading became a familiar concept to many during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior studies examining infectious disease epidemics, including those on COVID-19, have found that some individuals are much more likely to transmit ...
May 15, 2026
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Thousands of Americans develop chronic persistent symptoms—such as fatigue, cognitive difficulties ("brain fog"), and other debilitating issues—each year following acute infections from Lyme disease, COVID-19, and other pathogens. ...
May 14, 2026
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A deadly outbreak on a cruise liner is just the latest in a long history of infectious diseases spreading rapidly in the cramped confines of ships, from the Black Death to COVID.
May 14, 2026
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Fingerprinting transformed police investigations by making it possible to place a suspect at a crime scene with physical evidence. Similarly, genome sequencing has changed how disease detectives study outbreaks by allowing ...
May 12, 2026
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Early-season tick bites have been driving more people to emergency rooms since 2017, and Virginia, along with several other northeastern states, is in the bull's-eye.
May 11, 2026
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Recent news reports have highlighted several infectious diseases incidents, including three tuberculosis clusters in Singapore and a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
May 9, 2026
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A clinical trial conducted in Tanzania and Mozambique and published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases concludes that expanding the use of molecular diagnostic tests on urine and stool samples, in addition to sputum, to detect ...
May 8, 2026
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Household contacts of people with tuberculosis (TB) have a high risk of getting TB themselves, at around 2%. It is currently difficult to detect TB in its early stages, or predict who will go on to have TB, and therefore ...
May 7, 2026
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Fifty large tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks were identified in 23 states during 2017 to 2023, mainly involving U.S.-born persons, according to research published in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity ...
May 5, 2026
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