Kansas City-area residents may be alarmed to hear that Wyandotte County is at the epicenter of the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, according to state health officials.

Kansas is dealing with one of the largest outbreaks of tuberculosis recorded in a single year in the United States since the 1950s, state health officials say. The outbreak in the Kansas City area ...

Virtually nothing is known about the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak. This disease surpassed COVID as the leading disease cause of death in the world.

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 ...

“When public health services weaken, one of the first things you will see is outbreaks of TB.” I asked him what he meant by ...

Tuberculosis has stalked humanity for as nearly as long as we've been on earth. In this article, we take a look at how UCSF ...

The Kansas outbreak, described by health officials as “unprecedented,” has killed at least two people and sickened dozens of others. It could be an indicator that tuberculosis cases may be ...

Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

Without government funding, research to fight tuberculosis would probably never have happened and countless lives would have been unnecessarily cut short. An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the ...

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

Michael A. Bernstein, MD, Stamford Health, addresses common misconceptions about tuberculosis amid the outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas City, Kansas, area is currently experiencing a ...

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