A confirmed case of active tuberculosis at Tiyan High School has prompted a required TB skin testing for individuals who may have been exposed to the bacteria causing the infectious lung disease ...

Hundreds of people in New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania are sickened with TB every year, but a recent deadly outbreak in Kansas ... was on alert after a high school student diagnosed ...

The state’s provisional 2024 count shows 79 active TB cases and 213 latent cases in the two counties where the outbreak is happening, Wyandotte and Johnson. Not all of those are linked to the ...

Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern part of the state ... Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis, ...

The state's provisional 2024 count shows 79 active TB cases and 213 latent cases in the two counties where the outbreak is happening, Wyandotte and Johnson. Not all of those are linked to the ...

Kansas is currently experiencing a rare outbreak of tuberculosis (TB), the world’s deadliest infectious disease. TB is spread via germs in the air and usually affects the lungs but can also affect the ...

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state ...

Cases related to the outbreak were first reported in January 2024, and there were two reported TB deaths last year associated with this outbreak, Jill Bronaugh, a spokesperson for the Kansas ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - Wyandotte County leaders say there is no reason to panic over reports that Kansas City, Kansas, has one of the largest documented TB outbreaks since the 1950s.

Health officials are raising the alarm over a large and ongoing tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas. According to data from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), the cases have ...