The CDC is recommending all travelers be fully vaccinated, following an outbreak linked to a flight that landed in Denver.

Without the CDC, NIH, and local health departments, the Kansas City area tuberculosis outbreak could have been much worse. Skip to Main Content. Manage alerts for this article; ...

Virtually nothing is known about the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak. This disease surpassed COVID-19 as the leading disease cause of death in the world.

Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to one of the largest in U.S. history. The county's health director is no longer with the agency as of ...

After the CDC said the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak isn't the largest in documented history, KDHE clarified they meant the largest in a single year.

After the CDC said the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak isn't the largest in documented history, KDHE clarified they meant the largest in a single year.

A large, ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has sickened at least 67 and caused two deaths. What to know about TB symptoms, transmission, and treatment.

In 2023, the CDC recorded 46 active TB cases in Kansas, says Bronaugh. “It’s a substantial outbreak of tuberculosis,” Dr. William Schaffner, ...

The U.S. recorded 8,649 cases of tuberculosis last year, and 9,606 in 2023, according to the CDC. Tuberculosis replaced COVID-19 as the top cause for infectious disease-related deaths in 2023 ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City area has grown into one of the largest ever recorded in the U.S., with ... according to the CDC, which began tracking TB cases in the 1950s. ...

With 67 active cases reported between January 2024 and the present, Bronaugh added that the outbreak is "largest outbreak in the U.S. at this time over the span of one year since the CDC began ...