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

Tuberculosis has stalked humanity for as nearly as long as we've been on earth. In this article, we take a look at how UCSF ...

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

Just over a month after US President Donald Trump implemented a 90-day freeze of all foreign assistance, the future looks ...

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague - a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least ...

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City metropolitan area straddling Kansas and Missouri has made headlines across the country, a rare feat for an infectious disease too often ignored ...

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.

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

Kansas is dealing with the largest TB outbreak in modern U.S. history. Here's what to know about tuberculosis testing and cases in Tennessee in 2025.

Tuberculosis is the No. 1 infectious killer globally and USAID's work halted by Trump administration - clinics shuttered, ...

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