Kansas Department of Health and Environment ... for Disease Control and Prevention started reporting TB cases in the 1950s. A CDC spokesperson said that isn't accurate, pointing to an outbreak ...

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

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

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

Without government funding, research to fight tuberculosis would probably never have happened and countless lives would have ...

Just a couple of years ago, there was a smaller TB outbreak in Kansas. After the outbreak was contained, the CDC reported ...

“EIS [Epidemiology Intelligence Service] officers step up at a moment’s notice to investigate public health threats in the ...

The outbreak, which began in January 2024, has resulted in 67 confirmed active tuberculosis cases and 79 confirmed latent cases, with two deaths. The CDC is providing on-site assistance in Kansas ...

A CDC spokesperson said that isn't accurate ... Kansas public health officials now say an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, area is the largest in a single year in recorded ...