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

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

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

But the relative size of the outbreak is irrelevant. Kansas numbers continue to grow, and Dr. William Schaffner, infectious ...

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

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

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

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

Kansas is experiencing its largest tuberculosis outbreak in history, with 67 active cases and two deaths. The outbreak is contained to specific areas in Kansas and poses a low risk to the general ...

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 ...

Michael A. Bernstein, MD, Stamford Health, addresses common misconceptions about tuberculosis amid the outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas City, Kansas, area is currently experiencing a ...