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

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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 ...

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

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Austin Public Health on Friday announced Austin's first measles case during a statewide outbreak after an infant tested positive. It is the first case in Austin since 2019.

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.