Hundreds of people in New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania are sickened with TB every year, but a recent deadly outbreak in Kansas has some worried about the disease’s spread. Tuberculosis ...

It’s January 2024. Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern part of the state, with 67 cases since 2024. So far, officials have reported 60 active ...

Two Kansas counties are reporting active cases of TB in the largest reported outbreak of the respiratory disease Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared ...

Health officials are raising the alarm over a large and ongoing tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas. According to data from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), the cases have ...

A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has caused dozens of illnesses and at least two deaths, according to the state health department. Cases related to the ...

So far, there have been 67 confirmed cases of active TB related to the outbreak. Kansas is facing one of the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history, according to local health ...

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 ...

Local health officials reported this month that the state is in the midst of a large outbreak of tuberculosis—reportedly now the largest outbreak of the disease ever documented in the United States.

Kansas is experiencing its most significant tuberculosis outbreak, with 67 active and 79 latent cases reported in Wyandotte and Johnson counties. Despite the outbreak's scale, health officials ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis in Kansas has become the largest recorded outbreak of the illness in the U.S., with nearly 70 active cases since last year. A doctor examines the x-rays of a ...

Kansas health officials are responding to a tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City metro area, with more than 60 reported cases across two counties, a notice from the Kansas Department of Health ...