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

Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just ...

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 ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The World Health Organization estimates more than a million people died from tuberculosis ...

Trying to keep a resurgence of tuberculosis cases from exploding into an outbreak, the Vanderburgh County Health Department plans to open a new clinic.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) is tracking 384 individuals with suspected tuberculosis in the Kansas City metro area — at least 67 have an active infection, and two have ...

“Tuberculosis outbreaks are often indications ... If it is happening in Kansas City, there could be outbreaks elsewhere that we don’t know about.” This sounds to me like we should be at ...

A photo of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department in Kansas City, Kansas. Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis ...

Since January 2024, dozens of tuberculosis cases have been found around Kansas City. TB may seem like a disease of the past—but it’s still with us.

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