State public health officials are adding more nuance on a previous claim about an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area. Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...

The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. Getty Images For more than a year, local, state and federal public health officials ...

Kansas has reported one of its largest tuberculosis outbreaks since the 1950s, beginning in Wyandotte County. But infectious disease expert Dr. Dana Hawkinson says the risk to most residents is ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. This week marks the fifth anniversary of COVID being declared a global pandemic. So much changed about all our lives then ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment clarifies that the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City is the largest in the US over a one-year period, not the largest ever recorded. The ...