A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear ...

A CDC spokesperson identified two outbreaks in the last decade linked to more tuberculosis cases than the ongoing outbreak ...

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

In an email to The Star, a CDC spokesperson identified two outbreaks within the last decade linked to more TB infections than Kansas’ ongoing outbreak, including one from 2015-2017 when the ...

Is Kansas TB Outbreak a Record? Editor’s note: U.S. News has updated this story due to information provided by the CDC. Read on for more detail. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is ...

Kansas health officials called the outbreak "the largest documented outbreak in U.S. history" since the CDC began counting cases in the 1950s. But a spokesperson for the CDC on Tuesday refuted ...

Health officials in Kansas say the risk to people living in surrounding counties and to the general public is "very low," and that the department is following guidance from the CDC. TB is a ...

Caused by airborne bacteria, the disease is highly contagious and has now sickened dozens of people and drawn on-the-ground assistance in Kansas from the CDC. Kansas health officials say the risk ...