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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TB cases increased in 2021 and 2022 after a decline in 2020 The TB incidence may be returning to pre-pandemic levels Certain groups saw "considerable increases" in TB cases The U.S. saw an uptick in ...

The CDC says the rise in large outbreaks signals persistent transmission among people facing social and economic instability.

A new strain of drug-resistant tuberculosis that is "virtually untreatable" is raising alarm among public health officials, even as the less virulent, and much more common, form of TB continues to ...

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 ...

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 ...