The notification rate of tuberculosis (TB) went up from 2 to 2.5 per 100,000 population. But overall, numbers of notified paediatric cases remain relatively low across the region. As young children ...

New findings also indicate that children who live in settings with a high burden of TB have a consistently high annual risk of developing TB infection throughout childhood. An estimated 1.2 million ...

Tuberculosis testing for hundreds of children in Omaha began Saturday, after a large group of infants, toddlers and children was potentially exposed to infection through a drop-in day-care program.

Children and staff at a Manchester child care facility were exposed to an individual with tuberculosis over a five-month period, according to the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human ...

Positive results mark an important step forward in efforts to develop effective treatments for children with drug-resistant TB COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- New interim data from ...

ABOUT THE DISEASE AND HOW IT’S TRANSMITTED. NEW HAMPSHIRE HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY ALL CHILDREN AND STAFF AT AN UNNAMED DAYCARE IN MANCHESTER WERE EXPOSED TO A PERSON WITH ACTIVE TUBERCULOSIS BETWEEN ...

An international research consortium led by LMU has tested a rapid new analytical tool which needs just a bloodsample from the fingertip. Around 240,000 children worldwide die of tuberculosis every ...

Despite global efforts, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in children is rising at an alarming rate, with younger children at the highest risk of mortality—urgent action is needed to reverse the trend.

Children born in the United States are 6 times more likely to have tuberculosis (TB) if at least 1 parent was born abroad, according to a study published online February 10 in Pediatrics. The finding ...

A new study has assessed TB infection and active TB disease during children's first decade of life in high-burden settings. The new results found that there was a consistently high rate of annual TB ...