A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear ...

While TB cases have been rising nationally in recent years, public health officials continue to emphasize there is no threat ...

State health officials said that dozens of people in the Kansas City, Kan., area have the disease, which has drawn a federal response.

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City ... TB is caused by bacteria that lives in the people’s lungs and spreads through the air when they talk, cough or sing.

In “latent” TB, the bacteria hibernates in the person’s lungs or elsewhere ... to contaminated tissue used in bone transplants sickened 113 patients. How is tuberculosis treated?

An unprecedented tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas has reached historic ... The other, a nationwide outbreak in 2021 that was linked to contaminated tissue used in bone transplants, affected 113 ...