Leading UCSF physician-scientists are developing targeted treatments, earlier diagnostics, and helping to solve tuberculosis’ ...

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before the Black Death, a new study shows. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that ...

Around the same time, the county set aside land and funding for a public health farm at Keokea to address the so-called “Great White Plague,” or tuberculosis. The Farm, eventually named Kula ...

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ice age. Today, the disease—passed from those who are actively ...