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

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

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 firings also swept up two CDC workers, both part of a public health training program, who'd been deployed to work on a ...

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

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

“Tuberculosis outbreaks are often indications ... If it is happening in Kansas City, there could be outbreaks elsewhere that we don’t know about.” This sounds to me like we should be at ...

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City metropolitan area straddling Kansas and Missouri has made headlines across the country, a rare feat for an infectious disease too often ignored ...

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 ...