Kansas City-area residents may be alarmed to hear that Wyandotte County is at the epicenter of the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, according to state health officials.

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

Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...

state and federal public health officials have been tracking one of the nation’s largest outbreaks of tuberculosis in decades ...

Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

Indeed, the pathogen seems like ancient history — but as recent developments indicate, tuberculosis isn’t done with us yet.

In this final interview clip, Michael A. Bernstein, MD, stresses the need for effective communication and proactive screening ...

"Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

Elisha Caldwell had been head of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming one of the largest in recent U.S. history.

Kansas has experienced a significant outbreak of tuberculosis with 67 active infections and even more latent cases of the ...