The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an ...

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

Kansas is dealing with one of the largest outbreaks of tuberculosis recorded in a single year in the United States since the 1950s, state health officials say. The outbreak in the Kansas City area ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment clarifies that the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City is the largest in the US over a one-year period, not the largest ever recorded.

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

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

Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

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

"Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

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

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