Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just last month, two new bills were proposed that would effectively eliminate ...

Highlighting the rise in U.S. cases has been an ongoing TB outbreak in Kansas, where a total of 68 active cases since 2024 had occurred as of March 21, according to the Kansas Department of Health ...

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

Jack Gruber USA Today Network Kansas is facing the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the U.S. since the 1950s. As of the beginning of 2025, 67 active and 79 latent cases linked to the outbreak have ...

Leading UCSF physician-scientists are developing targeted treatments, earlier diagnostics, and helping to solve tuberculosis’ ...

She actually first broke the story that Kansas was even having a TB outbreak. As of last Friday, Kansas has seen 68 active cases of TB, and that’s since the beginning of the outbreak ...

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

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

Why doesn’t the public know more about the troubling tuberculosis outbreak in eastern Kansas? The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) is tracking 384 individuals with suspected ...

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