Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death around the world, outpaced only by COVID-19 during the first three ...

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

Public health is not optional — it is the foundation of a functioning, thriving society. Jack Gruber USA Today Network Kansas is facing the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the U.S. since the 1950s.

Health officials issued a warning this week after someone at a suburban Chicago high school was diagnosed with active ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis (TB), a lung disease often marked by a persistent cough, began in January 2024 in Kansas City, ...

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 early March ...

There’s “not really a religious basis” for refusing a vaccine, one religious leader says Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard and ...

Outbreaks in several states have contributed to recent TB trends, including a recent one in the Kansas City, Kansas area. The Kansas TB rate jumped 148% last year, according to the new CDC data.

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 Representatives ...