Early detection and treatment plans have helped limit further disease transmission in the US. However, we've seen numbers ...

Tuberculosis spreads through germs released when a person with TB in their lungs coughs, speaks or sings. These bacteria can ...

Tuberculosis is making headlines as the contagious respiratory disease spreads in the Midwest. Kansas is currently facing one ...

New Jersey is experiencing a similar increase in cases and has a TB incidence rate above the national average. While TB isn’t ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City area has grown into one of the largest ever recorded in the United States, ...

As Kansas deals with one of the largest tuberculous outbreaks in the nation since the 1950s, Californians may be wondering ...

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However, most people get infected with TB don’t get sick, according to NCDHSS. That’s because their bodies can fight the ...

According to data from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), the cases have all occurred in Wyandotte ...

These numbers hide latent infections that the body controls but don’t show symptoms of active tuberculosis. Without treatment, latent tuberculosis can result in active cases in the future.

Symptoms of active tuberculosis disease depend on where the tuberculosis germs are growing within the body. Common symptoms of active tuberculosis disease include coughing, pain in the chest and ...

TB primarily affects the lungs and can spread to other parts of the body, such as the brain, spine, lymph nodes and kidneys. Not everyone infected with tuberculosis becomes ill immediately.