Michael A. Bernstein, MD, Stamford Health, addresses common misconceptions about tuberculosis amid the outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas City, Kansas, area is currently experiencing a ...

No, you probably didn’t get tuberculosis at Sunday’s Chiefs game. A yearlong outbreak of the bacterial disease in the Kansas City metropolitan area has raised concerns about spread locally and ...

In late January 2025, news outlets reported on an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in the Kansas City, Kansas, area. According to several of these reports, and posts sharing the news on social media, the ...

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City metropolitan area straddling Kansas and Missouri has made headlines across the country, a rare feat for an infectious disease too often ignored in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kansas is dealing with one of the largest outbreaks of tuberculosis recorded in a single year in the United States since the 1950s ...

Also known as TB, tuberculosis is a contagious illness that can be fatal if left untreated. Two people have died in the Kansas City area. Bigstock Kansas health officials said Wyandotte and Johnson ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said it should be noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first began monitoring and reporting cases in 1950. An ongoing tuberculosis ...

A tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has become the largest documented on record in the United States. As of Jan. 24, 2025, there have been 67 active cases reported in Wyandotte County (60) ...