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One of humanity’s oldest and deadliest killers is staging a modern-day comeback. The so-called “white plague” reclaimed its title as the world’s deadliest infectious disease in 2023 after being briefly overtaken by COVID-19 during the first three years of the pandemic. And the US isn’t immune. While the country still has one of the lowest …
Republican Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill filed an “emergency lawsuit” against several Harris-Biden administration officials last week after a Chinese migrant with a rare form of tuberculosis illegally entered the US. The lawsuit seeks to prevent federal immigration officials from releasing “potentially infected detainees” that came in contact with the Chinese national – who has …
City officials declared a public health emergency Thursday after a tuberculosis outbreak left one person dead and nine others hospitalized. Apublic health emergency has been declared by officials in Long Beach, California following a confirmed tuberculosis outbreak in a local single-room occupancy hotel. The outbreak, initially comprising 14 cases and one death, has raised concerns …