It’s easy to think that tuberculosis is an illness from another era. But the United States is actually experiencing the largest tuberculosis outbreak in its history. The outbreak, which is ...

TB is caused by bacteria that lives in the people’s lungs ... The Hearst Foundations has awarded Washington State University with a $150,000 grant. The Hearst Foundations has awarded two Washington ...

But without treatment at this stage, it can develop into active tuberculosis, with symptoms such as a cough that lasts more ...

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The Kansas City area is facing one of the country’s largest outbreaks of tuberculosis in recent years. According to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, as of Jan. 24, there have ...

White House officials are considering labeling migrants a measles and tuberculosis risk to curb asylum-seekers.

As Kansas deals with the largest Tuberculosis outbreak in the U.S. in decades, concerns are rising in neighboring Oklahoma.

Public health workers identified more than 170 active TB cases and more than 400 latent cases from 2015 to 2017. And in 2021, a nationwide outbreak linked to contaminated tissue used in bone ...

per The Washington Post. So… there are some unanswered questions. Here's what we know about the tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas right now, plus how the infection spreads. Meet the expert: Thomas Russo ...