Under a new law, local health officials will have to prove “probable cause” to make someone quarantine. Orders about public ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis within Kansas City in the United States has been ongoing since Jan. 2024 and has highlighted new ...

Getty Kansas has an outbreak of two diseases — measles and tuberculosis — as lawmakers loosen vaccine requirements for children. In a 103-15 vote on March 20, the Kansas House of ...

Globally, cases of tuberculosis have been on the rise and efforts to control it are hampered by funding shortages, according to the WHO.

There were nine active cases in Vanderburgh County as of Thursday, fewer than five of which involve children, according to ...

Tuberculosis is a "near-perfect predator," John Green said in his book "Everything is Tuberculosis." The bacterial infection, ...

The sudden and severe US cuts to grants from the world's largest health research funder threaten to unravel the medical ...

Now for a global snapshot. According to estimates provided by the United Nations-affiliated STOP TB Partnership (STP), over ...

and the majority of cases occur in individuals who were born outside of the U.S. Outbreaks in several states have contributed to recent TB trends, including a recent one in the Kansas City ...

Now, as Kansas grapples with a major tuberculosis outbreak and rising measles cases, a new law is further restricting health authorities’ ability to impose orders that can slow the spread of ...

Right now the US is battling a TB outbreak in Kansas. It is clear that clinical trials conducted here at the tip of Africa benefit patients in the US and throughout the world. In an analysis published ...