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

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague - a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least ...

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. Getty Images ...

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 ...

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

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

Kansas is "below the herd immunity threshold" for measles, as measured by KDHE's estimated MMR immunization rates for kindergarten students.

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

Just over a month after US President Donald Trump implemented a 90-day freeze of all foreign assistance, the future looks ...

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

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