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 continues as of early March ...

Slashing tuberculosis aid could endanger millions of lives abroad, health authorities say, with potential consequences for ...

The Platte County Sheriff's Office has identified the victims in a violent crime spree that left two people dead, one ...

A Kansas City councilwoman and a local entrepreneur announced an urgent push Thursday to rename Troost Avenue to TRUTH Avenue ...

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

The K-State and KU alumni teams began TBT with Wichita State at Koch Arena in previous years. But their team leaders ...

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

He’s laid off workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fighting an ominous outbreak of tuberculosis while ... opinion columnist for The Kansas City Star and McClatchy.

is tracking 384 individuals with suspected tuberculosis in the Kansas City metro area — at least 67 have an active infection, and two have died. While Kansas public health officials called it ...

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