Kansas is experiencing one of the largest recorded tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in U.S. history, as experts warn of a growing crisis in public health, worsened by recent legislative restrictions ...

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

“When public health services weaken, one of the first things you will see is outbreaks of TB.” I asked him what he meant by ...

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

Public health experts emphasize the importance ... from the COVID-19 pandemic that can be applied to managing the Kansas City TB outbreak. He emphasized the importance of balanced communication ...

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

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 Tuesday ...

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

but public health officials in Kansas won’t talk about immigration status or whatever factor connects the TB cases in the state. Though we don’t know how Kansas officials would have responded ...