Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to one of the largest in U.S.

In an interview with The American Journal of Managed Care, Michael A. Bernstein, MD, stressed the need for effective ...

Kansas City-area residents may be alarmed to hear that Wyandotte County is at the epicenter of the largest recorded ...

Also known as TB, tuberculosis is a contagious illness that can be fatal if left untreated.

A tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has killed two people and caused at least 146 to become infected with the potentially deadly respiratory disease during one of the largest outbreaks in the nation's ...

Wyandotte County contains part of Kansas City and Johnson County ... TB is a disease caused by a type of bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis, according to the CDC. It is one of the world's ...

Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern part of the state, with 67 active cases ...

Kansas public health officials have ordered quarantines during the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak, but lawmakers are ...

In a state Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare meeting, Ashley Goss, a deputy secretary for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, told committee members the outbreak is ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas Department of Health and Environment official told a Kansas Senate committee Tuesday the agency continues to work to resolve an "unprecedented" tuberculosis outbreak ...

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

Wyandotte County is currently facing the largest outbreak of tuberculosis in United States, state officials say. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reports 67 active infections of the ...