COVID-19 is only the latest infectious disease to have had an outsized impact on human life. A new study employing ancient human DNA reveals how tuberculosis has affected European populations over the past 2,000 years, specifically the impact that disease has had on the human genome. This work, which publishes March 4 in the American Journal of Human Genetics, has implications for studying not only evolutionary genetics, but also how genetics can influence the immune system.

RESIST-TB released its February 2021 newsletter with the latest research publications on drug-resistant TB.

The World Health Organization (WHO) 2020 Global TB Report app is now available for free download in Spanish. The app is also available in English, French and Russian.

Advocates demand Cepheid commit a greater proportion of its COVID-19 manufacturing capacity to LMICs and lower the price of its cartridges to $5.

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On International Women’s Day, 8 March 2021, TBWomen will be launched as a network accompanied by a short panel discussion featuring women who lead in TB. TBWomen is a new global network of women in their diversity working toward a gender-transformative TB response. The event will be co-hosted by the Stop TB Partnership which will release a position paper focusing on gender-sensitive TB interventions.

Developing reasonably priced, easy-to-use diagnosis kits that can swiftly and accurately detect infectious diseases in developing countries has become the main mission of Chie Nakajima and Kyoko Hayashida, as they seek to alleviate some of the hardship endured by poverty-stricken people.

As Covid-19 impacts lives around the world, a new skeleton study is reconstructing ancient pandemics to assess human's evolutionary ability to fight off leprosy, tuberculosis and treponematoses with help from declining rates of transmission when the germs became widespread.

To mark International Women’s Day, the World Health Organization and the Global Coalition of TB Activists will host a webinar on 8 March 2021, #ChooseToChallenge: A Gender-Sensitive & Equitable Response to End TB. It will explore barriers and will envisage solutions for seeking equitable health care for women and gender inclusivity in the global response to end TB.

Tuberculosis bacteria have evolved to remember stressful encounters and react quickly to future stress, according to a study by computational bioengineers at Rice University and infectious disease experts at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS).