The outbreak in Long Beach comes at a time when there has been a substantial increase in TB cases in California, per the state's Department of Public Health.In 2023, the number of reported cases ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis has led to a public health emergency in Long Beach, California. City Health Officer Dr. Anissa Davis declared a public health emergency Thursday in response to the ...

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 ...

Approximately 170 people have been exposed, city officials say. The City Council in Long Beach, California, voted Tuesday to ratify a local public health emergency order after an outbreak of ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

An outbreak of the disease has prompted a public health emergency in Long Beach, Calif., with officials concerned over the potential exposure of 170 people.

An outbreak of tuberculosis has led to a public health emergency in Long Beach, California. City Health Officer Dr. Anissa Davis declared a public health emergency Thursday in response to the ...

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 ...