Without government funding, research to fight tuberculosis would probably never have happened and countless lives would have ...

Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

"Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

Elisha Caldwell had been head of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming one of the largest in recent U.S. history.

Elisha Caldwell had been head of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming ...

The conflicts centered around things as basic as the use of Wyandotte County office space and escalated from there. The state ultimately took over the TB response as outbreak-related numbers ...

In an interview with The American Journal of Managed Care, Michael A. Bernstein, MD, stressed the need for effective ...

Kansas public health officials have ordered quarantines during the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak, but lawmakers are considering repealing that power.

While TB cases have been rising nationally in recent years, public health officials continue to emphasize there is no threat ...

Active TB patients are typically non-contagious after 10 days of treatment. Wyandotte County has been the hardest hit, but health officials maintain that the general public remains at "very low risk." ...

Kansas has reported 60 active cases in Wyandotte County and seven active cases in ... deaths and 7,415 individuals exposed to TB, and public health departments treated over 2,900 people for ...