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

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

If the bacteria become active and multiplies, a latent infection can turn into tuberculosis disease, according to the CDC. “The current Kansas City, Kan. Metro tuberculosis (TB) outbreak is the ...

In this case, there is virtual silence from the CDC and local ... comprise a large part of the Kansas City metropolitan area, have the greatest number of reported tuberculosis cases, and both ...

Health authorities say that the Trump administration’s gutting of USAID raises the risk of a global surge in tuberculosis ...

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 ...

Just a couple of years ago, there was a smaller TB outbreak in Kansas. After the outbreak was contained, the CDC reported that the majority of those who came down with TB were immigrants and their U.S ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised an alarming concern about a potential surge in tuberculosis (TB) cases ...