According to the latest data from the Kansas Department of Health, so far this year there have been a total of 9 active tuberculosis cases and 48 latent cases in the state.

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

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City metropolitan area straddling Kansas and Missouri has made headlines across the country, a rare feat for an infectious disease too often ignored ...

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

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 ...

A week after Kansas reported its first measles case in seven years, KDHE now reports six confirmed cases of measles, all in ...

All of the cases are in unvaccinated children and teenagers under the age of 18 years old, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

Kansas was coping with this latest TB crisis throughout 2024. However . . . Here's the highlight of a KC Star guest column ...

Trying to keep a resurgence of tuberculosis cases from exploding into an outbreak, the Vanderburgh County Health Department plans to open a new clinic.

Kansas faces one of the largest TB outbreaks in US history. TB, an enduring pandemic, thrives in poverty-stricken areas and ...

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