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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CDC data show large tuberculosis outbreaks in the US doubled between 2017 and 2023, with California experiencing its highest case count in 12 years. The increase coincides with the WHO recommending a ...

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

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.

Tuberculosis (TB) incidence in the United States has leveled off after declining annually for 20 years, according to a new report published in the March 25 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly ...

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 ...