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

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

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

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 ...

Just a couple of years ago, there was a smaller TB outbreak in Kansas. After the outbreak was contained, the CDC reported ...

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.

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

What do we know about this outbreak? Compared with the 52 and 46 cases of active TB in Kansas reported to the CDC in 2022 and 2023, respectively, the 67 cases diagnosed in Wyandotte and Johnson ...

Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to ... things started out smoothly between leadership at the CDC, KDHE and the Wyandotte County Public ...