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 ...
As tuberculosis cases rise in the US and worldwide, health officials puzzle over the resurgence of a disease once in decline
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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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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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 ...
The ‘Black Angels’ cared for tuberculosis patients when no one else would
In the early 20th century, these Black nurses came to New York City from the Jim Crow South to join the fight against the ...
Why increasing rates of tuberculosis in the UK and US should concern everyone
With one of the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in US history, Kansas has more to worry about than its recent Super Bowl ...
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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.