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

The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an ...

A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has caused dozens of illnesses and at least two ...

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.

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

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 ...

The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. From David ...

Michael A. Bernstein, MD, Stamford Health, addresses common misconceptions about tuberculosis amid the outbreak in Kansas ...

Jill Bronaugh, communications director at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment told me by email: “The Kansas ...

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

Kansas is dealing with the largest TB outbreak in modern U.S. history. Here's what to know about tuberculosis testing and cases in Tennessee in 2025.

Kansas has experienced a significant outbreak of tuberculosis with 67 active infections and even more latent cases of the disease.