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

The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an ...

Paediatric Tuberculosis (TB) is not a spiritual disease, rather a bacterial infection that can be cured with proper treatment, Mrs Josephine Adusei, Principal Physician Assistant (PA) in Tarkwa ...

latent infection can develop into TB disease. “TB is an infectious disease that most often affects the lungs and is caused by a type of bacteria. It spreads through the air when infected people ...

is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Two TB-related conditions exist: inactive TB and active TB. Kansas health ...

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in the state's history, and while the risk of contracting the bacterial disease is low in Michigan, it's worth knowing what to ...

latent infection can develop into TB disease. “TB is an infectious disease that most often affects the lungs and is caused by a type of bacteria. It spreads through the air when infected people ...

Additionally, 79 latent infections-- people infected with TB bacteria, but do not have TB disease and cannot spread it to others -- were reported across Wyandotte and Johnson counties in 2024 ...

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 ...