Kansas has an outbreak of two diseases — measles and tuberculosis — as lawmakers loosen vaccine requirements for children.

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

HealthDay News — Preliminary data released this month by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that more than 10,300 tuberculosis (TB) cases were reported last year, representing ...

"At the time, I knew almost nothing about TB. To me, it was a disease of history — something that killed depressive ...

Highlighting the rise in U.S. cases has been an ongoing TB outbreak in Kansas, where a total of 68 active cases since 2024 had occurred as of March 21, according to the Kansas Department of Health ...

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

John Green's new book highlights the history of tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease, which the Trump ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment and other agencies are evaluating the impact of DOGE canceling federal health ...

TB anywhere is TB everywhere,” said tuberculosis expert Philip Hopewell, MD, in the latest ATS Breathe Easy podcast. The U.S. has one of the lowest incidence rates of TB in the world, yet in January, ...

The Hawaiʻi Department of Health is recognizing World Tuberculosis Day, March 24, 2025, by raising awareness about the ...

Actually getting treatment is key: The World Health Organization (WHO) says that for two-thirds of TB patients who don't get ...

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.