BROCKTON — Dr. Shrein Saini tested 200 immigrants for tuberculosis over the last year. Eight out of 10 had the latent — that's to say, not contagious — version of the disease. Saini wants to get the ...

As staff continue to be tested as a precaution, Amazon says, a union calls for the site's closure.

Several cases of a ‘Victorian disease’ have been confirmed at one of Amazon’s warehouses in the UK. The online retailer said ...

Latent tuberculosis (TB) infection occurs when a person is infected with the TB bacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but ...

A new test shows promising results for detecting latent tuberculosis infection in resource-limited settings. This is according to a study from Karolinska Institutet, published in the journal Clinical ...

The immune system remains seriously out-of-whack – in an inflammatory state of overactivation and impaired functionality – ...

Many people with tuberculosis stay in the latent infection stage, but some develop the active disease. Both stages are treatable. Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that usually affects the ...