Kansas public health officials have ordered quarantines during the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak, but lawmakers are considering repealing that power.

Kansas City-area residents may be alarmed to hear that Wyandotte County is at the epicenter of the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, according to state health officials.

Kansas is experiencing one of the largest TB outbreaks on record as experts warn of a growing public health crisis, worsened by legislation limiting response.

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 ...

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

In an interview with The American Journal of Managed Care, Michael A. Bernstein, MD, stressed the need for effective ...

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

Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 ...

While cases of TB have been on the rise, Kansas health officials said the threat to the general public remains “very low.” . According to the CDC, anyone can contract tuberculosis, but those ...

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

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

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