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

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

A tuberculosis outbreak started over a year ago in the Kansas City area, but it's now drawing national attention.

After the CDC said the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak isn't the largest in documented history, KDHE clarified they meant the ...

The U.S. has historically been the largest funder of WHO, as well as global tuberculosis programs. On his first day in office ...

Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 ...

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in two Kansas counties has sickened dozens since January 2024. Health officials are raising ...

Tuberculosis cases linked to an ongoing outbreak in the Kansas City area continue to climb. The outbreak, which began a year ago, killed two people in 2024.

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

The outbreak started last January. Kansas health officials say numbers are trending downward, but they still expect to find more cases.

and a 2021 nationwide outbreak resulting from patients infected from contaminated bone grafts have been larger, the federal agency said in an email. Tuberculosis, caused by the bacterium called ...

The agency also cited a national outbreak in 2021 linked to a bone graft product that affected 113 patients after surgery. Tuberculosis is an airborne bacterial infection that mainly affects the ...