An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City metropolitan area straddling Kansas and Missouri has made headlines across the country, a rare feat for an infectious disease too often ignored ...

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

Jack Gruber USA Today Network Kansas is facing the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the U.S. since the 1950s. As of the beginning of 2025, 67 active and 79 latent cases linked to the outbreak have ...

Slashing tuberculosis aid could endanger millions of lives abroad, health authorities say, with potential consequences for ...

Kansas faces one of the largest TB outbreaks in US history. TB, an enduring pandemic, thrives in poverty-stricken areas and ...

The Trump administration's sweeping foreign aid cuts will send tuberculosis cases and deaths soaring around the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has played a pivotal role in the resurgence of TB. Cases increased globally by 4.6% from 2020 to 2023, reversing decades of steady disease declines. In the US, TB cases rose by ...

Kansas was coping with this latest TB crisis throughout 2024. However . . . Here's the highlight of a KC Star guest column ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties ...

The World Health Organization warned this week that massive cuts in funding, especially from the United States, could harm ...