Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just ...

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

Slashing tuberculosis aid could endanger millions of lives abroad, health authorities say, with potential consequences for ...

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

The WHO warned Wednesday that massive funding cuts, especially from the United States, could harm humanitarian efforts ...

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

With one of the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in US history, Kansas has more to worry about than its recent Super Bowl defeat. During the past year, 67 people with TB have been detected. This ...

With one of the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in US history, Kansas has more to worry about than its recent Super Bowl ...

Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to one of the largest in U.S. history. The county's health director is no longer with the agency as of ...

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 ...