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

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

Indeed, the pathogen seems like ancient history — but as recent developments indicate, tuberculosis isn’t done with us yet.

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

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Getty Images For more than a year, local, state and federal public health officials have been tracking one of the nation’s largest outbreaks of tuberculosis in decades. So far, 67 communicable ...