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 ...

F or 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 active cases ...

That’s funny, because there is a similar-size outbreak of measles going on in Texas right now and there, public health officials have had no qualms about releasing what ties the cases together ...

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.

"Currently, Kansas has the largest outbreak that they've ever had in history," Ashley Goss, a deputy secretary at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, told the state Senate’s Public ...

State public health officials are adding more nuance on a previous claim about an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, ... The total case count of cultured TB in that outbreak was 53." ...

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 ...

Bullish on their success, the global public health enterprise turned to another threat: polio. Eliminating polio would ...

Correction & clarification: This story has been updated to correct when the outbreak began. It’s January 2024. Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the ...

Nunavut's health department has officially declared an end to tuberculosis outbreaks in Pangnirtung and Pond Inlet.

That’s funny, because there is a similar-size outbreak of measles going on in Texas right now and there, public health officials have had no qualms about releasing what ties the cases together ...

The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. Getty Images For more than a year, local, state and federal public health ...