TB and U

According to the World Health Organisation, a third of the world's population is affected by tuberculosis. South Africa is said to be the country with the third highest TB infection rate, after China and India, with 73% of TB patients simultaneously living with HIV/aids. While many people will go th...

Many people think that tuberculosis (TB) is a disease of the past - an illness that no longer threatens us today. This CDC video highlights the continuing problem of tuberculosis (TB) in the United States and encourages people to take action by visiting the CDC TB website and getting tested for TB i...

"The effects are amazing," said researcher JoAnne Flynn, a professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at the Pitt Center for Vaccine Research. "When we compared the lungs of animals given the vaccine intravenously versus the standard route, we saw a 100,000-fold reduction in bac...