Virtually nothing is known about the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak. This disease surpassed COVID as the leading disease cause ...

But the relative size of the outbreak is irrelevant. Kansas numbers continue to grow, and Dr. William Schaffner, infectious ...

The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an ...

Since January 2024, dozens of tuberculosis cases have been found around Kansas City. TB may seem like a disease of the ...

Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

state and federal public health officials have been tracking one of the nation’s largest outbreaks of tuberculosis in decades ...

Kansas has experienced a significant outbreak of tuberculosis with 67 active infections and even more latent cases of the ...

Indeed, the pathogen seems like ancient history — but as recent developments indicate, tuberculosis isn’t done with us yet.

Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City area has grown into one of the largest ever recorded in the United States, with dozens of active cases of the infectious disease reported ...

Kansas public health officials have ordered quarantines during the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak, but lawmakers are considering repealing that power.