But the relative size of the outbreak is irrelevant. Kansas numbers continue to grow, and Dr. William Schaffner, infectious ...

Senators in Kansas have passed a bill that would restrict the ability of public health officials to limit public gatherings.

Jill Bronaugh, communications director at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment told me by email: “The Kansas ...

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

President Donald Trump’s efforts to dramatically reshape the federal workforce and slash spending has brought chaos to Washington, D.C. and spawned a bevy of legal cases as newly unemployed members of ...

Without government funding, research to fight tuberculosis would probably never have happened and countless lives would have ...

Active cases of Tuberculosis (TB) have been on the rise across Minnesota and nationally since 2022. TB is a dangerous bacterial infection that attacks the lungs. There are two different kinds of TB.

Author John Green visited the University of Wisconsin’s Shannon Hall at Memorial Union on Feb. 18 to talk about the upcoming ...

The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. From David ...

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

The AP and other outlets reported last week that as many as 5,200 probationary employees across HHS could be dismissed, based ...

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