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

An outbreak of tuberculosis within Kansas City in the United States has been ongoing since Jan. 2024 and has highlighted new trends of TB in the United States. According to March 2025 U.S. Centers for ...

The fact that health departments in Kansas and Missouri had access to these scientific breakthroughs makes TB outbreaks more manageable — stopping the outbreak well short of becoming U.S ...

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

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. As ...

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.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sixty-seven cases and two deaths have been reported in an ongoing Kansas TB outbreak. Officials initially ...

The U.S. has one of the lowest tuberculosis incidence rates in the world. So when there are outbreaks of this bacterial infection, like the one reported last month in Kansas, they get our attention.

Kansas Department of Health and Environment officials previously said the tuberculosis outbreak "is the largest documented outbreak in U.S. history" since the Centers for Disease Control and ...

A large, ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has sickened at least 67 and caused two deaths. What to know about TB symptoms, transmission, and treatment.

Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern part of the state, with 67 active cases since 2024, marking one of the largest outbreaks in recorded history of ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment clarifies that the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City is the largest in the US over a one-year period, not the largest ever recorded.