There is a vaccine aimed at preventing TB called Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), but it’s not commonly used in the U.S., ...

An outbreak of the infectious lung disease TB in Kansas is one of the largest ever recorded in the US. As of January 24, ...

UK Health Security Agency figures show 5,480 people were struck by the bacterial infection - spread by coughing - in 2024, a ...

Two counties in the Kansas City area continue to grapple with what is now a yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis.

The United States is facing one of the largest recorded outbreaks in U.S. history, according to local health officials and ...

The endTB trial is one of four recent randomized controlled trials testing new, shorter, and less toxic treatment regimens ...

Kansas is currently experiencing a rare outbreak of tuberculosis (TB), the world’s deadliest infectious disease. TB is spread ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City area has grown into one of the largest ever recorded in the United States, with dozens of active cases of the infectious disease reported, according to ...

“We would expect to see a handful of cases every year,” said Dr. Dana Hawkinson, an infectious disease doctor at the ...

Common symptoms of active TB include coughing, chest pains, fever, fatigue and coughing up blood or phlegm. The airborne ...

Tuberculosis spreads through germs released when a person with TB in their lungs coughs, speaks or sings. These bacteria can ...