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

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.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment clarifies that the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City is the largest in the US over a one-year period, not the largest ever recorded.

Virtually nothing is known about the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak. This disease surpassed COVID as the leading disease cause ...

Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

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

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 ...

Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern part of the state, with 67 active cases since 2024, marking one of the largest outbreaks in recorded history of the ...

“When public health services weaken, one of the first things you will see is outbreaks of TB.” I asked him what he meant by ...

Without government funding, research to fight tuberculosis would probably never have happened and countless lives would have ...

In this final interview clip, Michael A. Bernstein, MD, stresses the need for effective communication and proactive screening ...

Sixty-seven cases and two deaths have been reported in an ongoing Kansas TB outbreak. Officials initially said it is the largest outbreak in U.S. history but clarified it is the largest over the ...