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 ...

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

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 tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an ...

state and federal public health officials have been tracking one of the nation’s largest outbreaks of tuberculosis in decades ...

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.

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

Kansas is "below the herd immunity threshold" for measles, as measured by KDHE's estimated MMR immunization rates for kindergarten students.

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