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

With increasing mass movement, including due to climate change and war, the maxim "TB anywhere is TB everywhere" is more ...

Health authorities say that the Trump administration’s gutting of USAID raises the risk of a global surge in tuberculosis ...

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

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

With one of the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in US history, Kansas has more to worry about than its recent Super Bowl defeat. During the past year, 67 people with TB have been detected. This ...

The WHO warned Wednesday that massive funding cuts, especially from the United States, could harm humanitarian efforts ...

Since January 2024, dozens of tuberculosis cases have been found around Kansas City. TB may seem like a disease of the ...

But the relative size of the outbreak is irrelevant. Kansas numbers continue to grow, and Dr. William Schaffner, infectious ...

Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to one of the largest in U.S. history. The county's health director is no longer with the agency as of ...