Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years.

Erin Corriveau: Tuberculosis is something that a lot of our public health laws actually protect. And so outbreaks of TB don’t happen very commonly anymore in the United States. Mwangi ...

Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just ...

posing a direct threat to both American and global public health. As international travel and migration increase, uncontrolled MDR-TB outbreaks abroad heighten the risk of transmission to the U.S ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often ... People should be aware that TB is still a public health ...

A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...

Actually getting treatment is key: The World Health Organization (WHO) says that for two-thirds of TB patients who don't get ...

Public health is not optional — it is the foundation of a functioning, thriving society. Jack Gruber USA Today Network Kansas is facing the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the U.S. since the 1950s.

The exhaustion of public health resources continued medical workforce ... “We have watched this TB outbreak continue to grow for months, and even with the state health department becoming ...