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

Slashing tuberculosis aid could endanger millions of lives abroad, health authorities say, with potential consequences for ...

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

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

state and federal public health officials have been tracking one of the nation’s largest outbreaks of tuberculosis in decades. So far, 67 communicable active cases of the world’s deadliest airborne ...

But the relative size of the outbreak is irrelevant. Kansas numbers continue to grow, and Dr. William Schaffner, infectious ...

Why doesn’t the public know more about the troubling tuberculosis outbreak in eastern Kansas? The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) is tracking 384 individuals with suspected ...

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 ...

With increasing mass movement, including due to climate change and war, the maxim "TB anywhere is TB everywhere" is more ...

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

The WHO has issued warnings and cutting and freezing aid can risk a global surge in cases of tuberculosis – a ...