In late January 2025, news outlets reported on an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in the Kansas City, Kansas, area. According to several of these reports, and posts sharing the news on social media ...

Kansas is facing one of the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history, according to local health officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As of Jan. 24 ...

A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City ... The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that four of its staffers are on-site to help with the response to the ...

CNN has reached out to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for comment on the outbreak. Nationally, tuberculosis case counts in the United States increased in 2023 among all age ...

This story has been updated to clarify some CDC statistics. An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in the state's history, and while the risk of contracting the ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first began monitoring and reporting TB cases in 1950. Currently, there are 67 people ...

Bronaugh notes that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s tracking of TB only extends back to the 1950s, by which time the disease had started to wane significantly in the U.S ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) said it should be noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first began monitoring and reporting TB cases in 1950.

That's the most since the 1950s, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began monitoring and reporting TB cases. Health officials are testing and treating affected individuals.

What are the symptoms of Tuberculosis? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an active TB case can present in the lungs through symptoms such as: A bad cough that persists ...

An outbreak of the respiratory disease tuberculosis in Kansas is the largest in the state — and some are saying it’s the biggest surge in recent U.S. history. There are a total of 67 active cases of ...