Kansas is experiencing one of the largest recorded tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in U.S. history, as experts warn of a growing crisis in public health, worsened by recent legislative restrictions ...

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

State public health officials are adding more nuance on a previous claim about an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area. Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...

The Kansas City ... three consecutive years. Public health experts emphasize the importance of awareness, proactive measures, and balanced communication to manage TB outbreaks effectively.

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

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

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

Without government funding, research to fight tuberculosis would probably never have happened and countless lives would have ...

The director of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department is ... during the handling of the major tuberculosis outbreak, shown by emails obtained by the Kansas News Service.

While TB cases have been rising nationally in recent years, public health officials continue to emphasize there is no threat ...

Elisha Caldwell had been head of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming one of the largest in recent U.S. history.