The Kansas City metro area is experiencing the largest outbreak in U.S. history, with low risk to the general public, Kansas health officials say.

It’s easy to think that tuberculosis is an illness from another era. But the United States is actually experiencing the largest tuberculosis outbreak in its history. The outbreak, which is concentrated in Kansas,

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the Trump administration has revoked a decision from the waning days of the Biden administration that would have protected roughly 600,000 people from Venezuela from deportation.

President Donald Trump used one of the flurry of executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization for the second time in less than five years — a move many scientists fear could roll back decades-long gains made in fighting infectious diseases like AIDS,

The Trump administration’s push for a sweeping pause on federal grants and loans totaling potentially trillions of dollars is on hold for now, on the order of a federal judge.

Public health experts say the United States’ departure could cripple the WHO’s operations or leave an opening for China to assume greater control over the agency.

A Cedarville University student is among those presumed dead after an Army helicopter collided with an American Airlines flight that was on approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport near Washington,

Whitehall student tests positive for tuberculosis

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) says Kansas is facing the largest documented tuberculosis outbreak in American history.

THERE is widespread concern that Zimbabwe’s earlier successes in the fight against tuberculosis and HIV might regress following the freezing of aid by Washington to countries supported by USAid across the globe including to the World Health Organisation.

Dec. 3, 2024 — An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has identified several species that produce substances toxic to the bacterium that causes the human disease tuberculosis. The ...