Tuberculosis has stalked humanity for as nearly as long as we've been on earth. In this article, we take a look at how UCSF ...

Metro health departments say the outbreak has not reached the Kansas City area but say there are ways to stay safe just in ...

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

The firings also swept up two CDC workers, both part of a public health training program, who'd been deployed to work on a ...

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

Jill Bronaugh, communications director at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment told me by email: “The Kansas ...

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

Without government funding, research to fight tuberculosis would probably never have happened and countless lives would have been unnecessarily cut short. An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the ...

Just a couple of years ago, there was a smaller TB outbreak in Kansas. After the outbreak was contained, the CDC reported that the majority of those who came down with TB were immigrants and their ...

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