Kansas is experiencing one of the largest recorded tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in U.S. history, as experts warn of a growing crisis in public health, worsened by recent legislative restrictions ...

The Kansas City ... three consecutive years. Public health experts emphasize the importance of awareness, proactive measures, and balanced communication to manage TB outbreaks effectively.

The director of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department is ... during the handling of the major tuberculosis outbreak, shown by emails obtained by the Kansas News Service.

state and federal public health officials have been tracking one of the nation’s largest outbreaks of tuberculosis in decades. So far, 67 communicable active cases of the world’s deadliest airborne ...

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

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 ...

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

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak ... them are in the United States. But the outbreak in greater Kansas City offers a stark reminder of the importance of public funding for TB research and ...

While TB cases have been rising nationally in recent years, public health officials continue to emphasize there is no threat ...