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

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.

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

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 ...

All indicators point to the likelihood that the ongoing 2024-2025 flu season will surpass recent years’ figures for both ...

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

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

Many of those terminated worked on issues critical to consumers, from improving health care to regulating food packaging to ...

Elisha Caldwell had been head of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming one of the largest in recent U.S. history.