U.S. health officials have quarantined an airline passenger who may have exposed others to a potentially dangerous form of tuberculosis. The unusual decision was...
Photo: James Nachtwey
Music: Aqualung, It's easier to lie
XDRTB.org is an extraordinary effort to tell the story of extremely
drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) and TB through...
Tuberculosis, an ancient disease, kills one-point-seven million people each year, almost all in the developing world. Health experts say the death toll is likely to...
Journalist James Nachtwey photographed people with tuberculosis in Cambodia, South Africa and other countries for this slideshow being displayed around the world. Health experts say...
Heidi Spillane, a Sydney-based MSF Doctor, talks about the challenges of treating multi-drug resistant TB (tuberculosis) and HIV/AIDS in Homa Bay, Kenya.
This drug-resistant bacteria is already responsible for more deaths in this country than AIDS. What makes MRSA so potentially dangerous is the bacteria can make...