A large, ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has sickened at least 67 and caused two deaths. What to know about TB symptoms, transmission, and treatment.

A large, ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has sickened at least 67 and caused two deaths. What to know about TB symptoms, transmission, and treatment.

Outbreak or not, your risk of getting tuberculosis is low unless you're in very close contact with a person with active symptoms. Even if you've breathed in TB germs , you cannot spread it to ...

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

The potential for thousands of new deaths from TB is not worth the less than 1% in federal savings that came from cutting ...

Kansas is currently experiencing a large tuberculosis outbreak, but federal health officials are countering the claim it’s a U.S. record.

Correction & clarification: This story has been updated to correct when the outbreak began. It’s January 2024. Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the ...

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