An outbreak of tuberculosis within Kansas City in the United States has been ongoing since Jan. 2024 and has highlighted new ...

Under a new law, local health officials will have to prove “probable cause” to make someone quarantine. Orders about public ...

Getty Kansas has an outbreak of two diseases — measles and tuberculosis — as lawmakers loosen vaccine requirements for children. In a 103-15 vote on March 20, the Kansas House of ...

Tuberculosis is a "near-perfect predator," John Green said in his book "Everything is Tuberculosis." The bacterial infection, ...

Globally, cases of tuberculosis have been on the rise and efforts to control it are hampered by funding shortages, according to the WHO.

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties and continues as of ...

There were nine active cases in Vanderburgh County as of Thursday, fewer than five of which involve children, according to ...

Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years.

The Kansas TB rate jumped 148% last year, according to the new CDC data. Alaska and Hawaii continue to have the highest case rates. Tuberculosis is caused by bacteria that usually attack the lungs ...