More than 1 million people die of tuberculosis every year. They don’t have to.
TB killed more than 1.2 million people in 2023, likely making it once again the deadliest infection on Earth, after it was ...
Tuberculosis is back in Kansas. Under RFK Jr., this might be just the beginning | Opinion
Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just ...
Health Officials Puzzle Over the Resurgence of Tuberculosis in Kansas
An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...
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On COVID’s Fifth Anniversary, the U.S. Remains Vulnerable to Infectious Disease
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 ...
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Understanding Tuberculosis: Symptoms and Transmission Risks Explained
A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...
Kansas City Star12d
Tuberculosis is back in Kansas. Under RFK Jr., this might be just the beginning | Opinion
Jack Gruber USA Today Network Kansas is facing the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the U.S. since the 1950s. As of the beginning of 2025, 67 active and 79 latent cases linked to the outbreak have ...
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Tuberculosis is back in Kansas. Under RFK Jr., this might be just the beginning | Opinion
Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Kansas is facing the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the U.S. since the 1950s.