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

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

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Kansas City-area residents may be alarmed to hear that Wyandotte County is at the epicenter of the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, according to state health officials.

Indeed, the pathogen seems like ancient history — but as recent developments indicate, tuberculosis isn’t done with us yet.

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

In this final interview clip, Michael A. Bernstein, MD, stresses the need for effective communication and proactive screening ...

“EIS [Epidemiology Intelligence Service] officers step up at a moment’s notice to investigate public health threats in the ...

As the Trump administration targets federal public health agencies for mass firings and censorship, a growing outbreak of the airborne measles virus is raging across west Texas, imperilling the USA's ...

Without government funding, research to fight tuberculosis would probably never have happened and countless lives would have ...

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

Our air quality is affected by nearby environmental factors, as well as ripple effects from thousands of miles away.