by Carla Conrad | Mar 16, 2018 | Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is a global epidemic, but it is preventable and curable. In 2016, 10.4 million people were sickened with tuberculosis and there were 1.7 million TB-related deaths throughout the world. In the United States, there were 9, 272 cases of TB in 2016....
by Carla Conrad | Aug 4, 2017 | Tuberculosis
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently updated and made available a six booklet patient tuberculosis (TB) education series for healthcare providers to utilize with people who have TB disease, as well as those with latent tuberculosis...
by Carla Conrad | Feb 23, 2017 | Programs & Services, Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB), an infectious airborne disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is of vital public health concern when it occurs in any segment of the world’s population. Why is it that TB in children is of particular interest to the worldwide...
by Carla Conrad | Nov 30, 2016 | Tuberculosis
Did you know that in 1900, tuberculosis (TB) was a leading cause of death in the United States, second only to pneumonia/influenza? There were 38, 820 TB related deaths reported that year. Since then, the deaths attributed to tuberculosis have steadily decreased to...
by Carla Conrad | Aug 23, 2016 | Tuberculosis
Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) is a live, attenuated (weakened) vaccine derived from a strain of Mycobacterium bovis and used in many countries with a high prevalence of tuberculosis to prevent children from contracting severe disseminated tuberculosis (TB) or TB...
by Carla Conrad | Mar 24, 2016 | Tuberculosis
World Tuberculosis (TB) Day on March 24, 2016, marks the 134-year anniversary of Dr. Robert Koch’s unprecedented discovery in 1882 of the TB bacillus—the cause of tuberculosis. Once considered to be hereditary or due to some mysterious environmental forces,...
