A confirmed case of active tuberculosis at Tiyan High School has prompted a required TB skin testing for individuals who may have been exposed to the bacteria causing the infectious lung disease ...

The search for new tuberculosis drug targets under traditional laboratory methods has historically proven to be arduous and ...

The U.S. has historically been the largest funder of WHO, as well as global tuberculosis programs. On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to pull the U.S. out of ...

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear ...

or cases in which people are infected with the tuberculosis bacteria but don’t have the disease. If the bacteria become active and multiplies, a latent infection can turn into tuberculosis disease, ...

The outbreak is real, but Jill Bronaugh, the communications director at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE ...

Health officials in Kansas say there is no threat to the general public. TB is caused by bacteria that lives in the people’s lungs and spreads through the air when they talk, cough or sing.

What is tuberculosis? TB is caused by bacteria that lives in the people’s lungs and spreads through the air when they talk, cough or sing. It is very infectious, but only spreads when a person ...

or cases in which people are infected with the tuberculosis bacteria but don’t have the disease. If the bacteria become active and multiplies, a latent infection can turn into tuberculosis ...

A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has become the largest documented TB outbreak in the United States since monitoring began in the 1950s, according to the state ...