Kansas City has been at the center of an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak, bringing the disease back into the spotlight. Around 67 active cases have been confirmed since the start of 2025, and nearly 400 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about health and U.K. health policy. Although it's often thought of as a disease of the past, tuberculosis is still found ...

As Green writes, “The cure is where the disease is not and the disease is where the cure is not.” As everything for me is ...

Though tuberculosis is rare in the United States as compared to developing countries, the San Francisco Bay Area has some of ...

There were an estimated 490,000 new cases of drug-resistant TB in 2016. Tuberculosis, a lung disease most often transmitted by breathing infected particles in the air, is the ninth leading cause of ...

A tuberculosis case is under investigation in Jackson County. The individual with TB spent time in the county during their infectious period. Close contacts will be notified by public health officials ...

District officials say in a letter to families that the person who contracted the viral infection is no longer contagious.

TB disease affects Asian persons more than others.‎ In 2023, TB disease was reported among 2,887 non-Hispanic Asian persons in the United States. This accounts for 30.0% of all people reported with TB ...

San Francisco public health officials issued a health advisory after identifying a tuberculosis outbreak in a private ...

Has the recent Tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas got you worried about catching TB? Learn about the top symptoms to look out for and explore some tips on how to stop the spread. Taylor Leamey wrote ...