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

According to the Greene County Sheriff's Office, some Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees had positive skin tests for tuberculosis.

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

Tuberculosis, thought to be a disease of the past, is on the rise across the country and in New Jersey. In January, public health officials in the Kansas City metro area raised alarm about an ...

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

spreads through germs from people with active TB, according to the CDC. The symptoms of active TB include a bad cough that lasts 3 weeks or longer, chest pain or coughing up blood or sputum ...

What to know and understand about tuberculosis According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), tuberculosis is a disease primarily caused by a bacterium called mycobacterium ...

In addition, while the Kansas outbreak was initially reported as one of the largest documented TB outbreaks in the U.S. since the CDC started tracking cases in the 1950s, state health officials ...