More than 10,300 cases were reported last year, an 8% increase from 2023 and the highest since 2011, according to preliminary ...

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.

But in fact, tuberculosis is still the world’s deadliest infectious disease. It kills over 1.2 million people per year. That ...

Tuberculosis (TB) continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years. More ...

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

But in Kansas, they’ve been battling tuberculosis. Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga: The first cases associated with it were recorded in January 2024. The majority of the cases were in Wyandotte County ...

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

A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...

Actually getting treatment is key: The World Health Organization (WHO) says that for two-thirds of TB patients who don't get ...

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