Officials said they are watching closely after news last week that Kansas is handling the largest U.S. outbreak of tuberculosis since monitoring began in the 1950s. The disease, caused by bacteria, ...

Kansas is dealing with one of the largest outbreaks of tuberculosis recorded in a single year in the United States since the 1950s, state health officials say. The outbreak in the Kansas City area ...

"Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by slow growing bacteria," said Dr. Nicholas Turner, an infectious disease specialist with Duke Health. "It usually affects the lungs, so most ...

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs but can also spread to other parts of the body. It;s transmitted through the air when someone with TB coughs ...

Health officials are raising the alarm over a large and ongoing tuberculosis (TB ... are released when a person with active TB in their lungs speaks, sings or coughs. Once in the body, the ...

If it affects other parts of the body than the lungs, other symptoms may appear, according to the CDC. Tuberculosis can lead to red or purple swelling under the skin if the lymph nodes are ...

Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern ... air when a person with active TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs, speaks or sings, the CDC said.

As Kansas deals with an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak – the largest in recorded history in the United States – you might be wondering if the threat of TB could make its way to Delaware.

vaccine against pulmonary TB; the low overall risk of infection with M. tuberculosis in the United States; and the vaccine’s interference with the interpretation of the TB skin test.” ...

Tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs, has long been considered rare in the U.S. Recently, the Kansas City metro area reported a spike in TB, prompting several ...