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

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

State public health officials are adding more nuance on a previous claim about an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area. Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...

The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. From David ...

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.

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

The Kansas City TB outbreak has 67 active cases, with 35 cured and 30 under treatment, and two deaths reported. TB cases have risen nationally and globally, with the US reporting the highest ...

An unprecedented tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas has reached historic levels, becoming one of the largest ever recorded in U.S. history. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE ...

Tuberculosis takes close, repeated contact to contract. When the cases started to spike last summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Kansas Department of Health and ...