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

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

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

The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. Getty Images ...

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

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

Jill Bronaugh, communications director at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment told me by email: “The Kansas ...

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.

“EIS [Epidemiology Intelligence Service] officers step up at a moment’s notice to investigate public health threats in the United States and around the world,” according to the website, which retains ...

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

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