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

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 ...

The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. From David ...

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.

In this case, there is virtual silence from the CDC and local ... comprise a large part of the Kansas City metropolitan area, have the greatest number of reported tuberculosis cases, and both ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

While TB cases have been rising nationally in recent years, public health officials continue to emphasize there is no threat ...