Beyond bringing back diseases like measles and TB, defunding NIH will cost the United States its leading role in global ...

Kansas politics are at a turning point during Gov. Laura Kelly's final term. The override of her veto on ending the three-day mail-in ballot grace period shows sharp partisan divides shaping voting ...

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, as well as ...

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

Virtually nothing is known about the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak. This disease surpassed COVID-19 as the leading disease cause of death in the world.

Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to one of the largest in U.S. history. The county's health director is no longer with the agency as of ...

Recent TB Outbreak in Kansas City. In a press release, KDHE explained that this outbreak has been ongoing since January 2024, with most patients infected in early 2024 and throughout the summer.

The Kansas City, Kansas, area is currently experiencing a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak, with 2 deaths, 67 active cases, and 79 latent cases reported so far. This surge comes amid a broader rise in ...

An unprecedented yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in Kansas has officials and residents concerned about lack of resources and additional cases that may occur under the radar.

The sharp rise in TB cases—from 51 statewide in 2023 to 109 in 2024—has placed a spotlight on public health measures. Kansas ...

However, KDHE said the Kansas outbreak is still larger than the 2021 outbreak. "Out of the 113 patients that received the bone graph infected with TB, 53 of them cultured out M-TB," said Jill ...