At the end of last week, Dr. Colleen Kelley said she was getting texts about every 10 minutes from colleagues whose ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a near-perfect predator. In 1882, Robert Koch, the physician who discovered the microbe, told a room full of scientists that it caused one in seven of all deaths.

U.S.A.I.D. Global Health The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.

Xin Wang et al, Engineered Mycobacterium tuberculosis triple-kill-switch strain provides controlled tuberculosis infection in animal models, Nature Microbiology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41564-024-01913-5 ...

The World Health Organization warned last week that the sweeping funding cuts could endanger millions of lives, since many countries depend on foreign aid for TB prevention, testing and treatment.

The electrification of South Africa’s informal settlements through a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-driven Power Africa’s five-year electrification initiative with ...

Candidate transmission survival genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2025; 122 (10) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2425981122 Cite This Page : ...

As I write this, I am saddened and outraged that the U.S. government is willing to stop aiding some of the world’s most ...

Tuberculosis (TB), a potentially fatal disease, had been almost wiped out in Britain by the 1970s. But there has been a dramatic rise in cases recently, especially in and around London, where 40 ...

Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos has left no stone unturned in his quest for success against Benin on Tuesday. After a standout performance in the Fifa 2026 World Cup qualifier against Lesotho on ...