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 ...

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.

Getty Images For more than a year, local, state and federal public health officials have been tracking one of the nation’s largest outbreaks of tuberculosis in decades. So far, 67 communicable ...

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

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

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

Jeff Landry began carrying out a promise to remake public health after the ... that are also confronting outbreaks of measles, whooping cough, syphilis, H.I.V. and TB. The federal government ...

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