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 ...

A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...

Why doesn’t the public know more about the troubling tuberculosis outbreak in eastern Kansas? The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) is tracking 384 individuals with suspected ...

The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. Getty Images For more than a year, local, state and federal public health officials ...

Kansas is dealing with the largest TB outbreak in modern U.S. history. Here's what to know about tuberculosis testing and cases in Tennessee in 2025.

As Kansas is in the midst of an unprecedented tuberculosis outbreak, state lawmakers are considering eliminating the quarantine power of public health officials. The Senate health committee last ...

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

Sixty-seven cases and two deaths have been reported in an ongoing Kansas TB outbreak. Officials initially said it is the largest outbreak in U.S. history but clarified it is the largest over the ...

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

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 ...