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

Kansas City-area residents may be alarmed to hear that Wyandotte County is at the epicenter of the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, according to state health officials.

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

Getty Images For more than a year, local, state and federal public health officials have been tracking one of the nation’s ...

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

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

Tuberculosis is treatable with antibiotics, and health officials encourage those contacted to undergo testing as a precaution ...

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

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

As the Trump administration targets federal public health agencies for mass firings and censorship, a growing outbreak of the airborne measles virus is raging across west Texas, imperilling the USA's ...

“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 ...

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.