Health officials in this U.S. state are reporting the largest tuberculosis outbreak in American history. Here's what to know ...

Two counties in the Kansas City area continue to grapple with what is now a yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis.

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

Tuberculosis, colloquially known as "white death" or "consumption," is a contagious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosism bacteria. The disease generally affects the lungs ...

"Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by slow growing bacteria," said Dr. Nicholas Turner, an infectious disease specialist with Duke Health. "It usually affects the lungs, so most ...

Health officials in Columbia and Boone County are closely monitoring the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas, which state ...

In “latent” TB, the bacteria hibernates in the person’s lungs or elsewhere ... to contaminated tissue used in bone transplants sickened 113 patients. How is tuberculosis treated?