A CDC spokesperson identified two outbreaks in the last decade linked to more tuberculosis cases than the ongoing outbreak ...
An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in two Kansas counties has sickened dozens since January 2024. Health officials are raising ...
“While TB cases in Wyandotte and Johnson counties are getting attention, we want to assure our residents that what we’re ...
Common symptoms of active TB include coughing, chest pains, fever, fatigue and coughing up blood or phlegm. The airborne ...
In today’s Health Alert, the tuberculosis outbreak continues to infect dozens of people in Kansas. Two people lost their ...
The outbreak poses “very low risk to the general public, including the surrounding counties,” the Kansas Department of Health ...
State health officials said that dozens of people in the Kansas City, Kan., area have the disease, which has drawn a federal ...
Two counties in the Kansas City area continue to grapple with what is now a yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis.
More than 60 people were being treated in the Kansas City area as of Friday, according to the state health department.
There is a vaccine aimed at preventing TB called Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), but it’s not commonly used in the U.S., ...