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 ...

Jan. 29, 2025 — Study finds three new safe and effective drug regimens to fight multidrug-resistant TB. The treatments, which include recently discovered TB drugs, give new options for shorter ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

People with latent infections cannot spread TB bacteria to others, but if the bacteria becomes active, latent infection can develop into TB disease. “TB is an infectious disease that most often ...

The Kansas City metro area is experiencing the largest outbreak in U.S. history, with low risk to the general public, Kansas ...

Latent TB infection cases mean people are infected with TB bacteria but don't have TB disease, according to the CDC. "This outbreak is still ongoing, which means that there could be more cases ...