An outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City area has grown into one of the largest ever recorded in the United States, ...
However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clarified the Kansas outbreak isn’t the largest in modern history.
Kansas is currently experiencing a rare outbreak of tuberculosis (TB), the world’s deadliest infectious disease. TB is spread ...
There is a vaccine aimed at preventing TB called Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), but it’s not commonly used in the U.S., ...
As of Jan. 24, 67 active cases of tuberculosis, or TB, had been reported in Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas. The outbreak began last year, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said ...
In total, there have been 75 cases of TB across the state in the last year, an increase since 2022. However, the public is ...
Again, in this report the newspaper attempts to spin & downplay the public health threat . . .
The endTB trial is one of four recent randomized controlled trials testing new, shorter, and less toxic treatment regimens ...