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

According to the latest data from the Kansas Department of Health, so far this year there have been a total of 9 active tuberculosis cases and 48 latent cases in the state.

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

But in Kansas, they’ve been battling tuberculosis. Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga: The first cases associated with it were recorded in January 2024. The majority of the cases were in Wyandotte County ...

A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...

In the early 20th century, these Black nurses came to New York City from the Jim Crow South to join the fight against the ...

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

With one of the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in US history, Kansas has more to worry about than its recent Super Bowl ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

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