Health officials have warned parents that the best defense against measles as a now-fatal outbreak continues is to get their children vaccinated.

Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...

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

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.

“When public health services weaken, one of the first things you will see is outbreaks of TB.” I asked him what he meant by ...

Copyright: © 2025 Elsevier Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. In Kansas, USA, public health workers are battling one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in US history ...

The director of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department is no longer ... the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming one of the largest in ...

Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to one of the largest in U.S. history. The county's health director is no longer with the agency as of Tuesday ...