According to the latest data from the Kansas Department of Health, so far this year there have been a total of 9 active tuberculosis cases and 48 latent cases in the state.

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

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 ...

Two fired CDC workers had been deployed to Kansas City to help work on a tuberculosis outbreak. The widespread upheaval at federal health agencies in the first month of the Trump administration ...

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

In this case, there is virtual silence from the CDC and local ... comprise a large part of the Kansas City metropolitan area, have the greatest number of reported tuberculosis cases, and both ...

Tuberculosis—also known as consumption and the illness that killed Nicole Kidman's Satine in Moulin Rouge!—is surging ...

Just a couple of years ago, there was a smaller TB outbreak in Kansas. After the outbreak was contained, the CDC reported that the majority of those who came down with TB were immigrants and their ...