The CDC says the rise in large outbreaks signals persistent transmission among people facing social and economic instability.

The disease can turn active even decades after the initial infection.

A tuberculosis outbreak has been reported at a posh San Francisco boarding school, prompting health officials to launch a “large scale” investigation. Three people associated with the boarding school ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Nearly one in five students and staff at San Francisco’s Archbishop Riordan High School have been diagnosed with latent or active tuberculosis, the latest development in an ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — State health officials say “one of the largest” tuberculosis outbreaks in decades has ended in the Kansas City, Kansas, area. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...

About one-quarter of large outbreak-related cases ID'd through contact tracing; they less often had clinical markers of highly infectious disease. HealthDay News — Fifty large tuberculosis (TB) ...

A tuberculosis outbreak has struck a ritzy private Catholic school in San Francisco, where a least three people were confirmed to have active cases of the bacterial lung infection, according to ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (WIBW) - The Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared an end to the tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City, Kan. The city ...

California is seeing “substantially” higher rates of tuberculosis compared with the rest of the U.S. The report comes as California hit a 12-year high of 2,150 TB cases in 2025, and the state ...

TOPEKA – A tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, area is officially over after no new patients have been diagnosed with the disease since April. The outbreak began in early 2024, ...