Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) programs are tasked with implementing the appropriate isolation of patients with suspected or confirmed communicable diseases to reduce the risk of health ...

Early detection and treatment plans have helped limit further disease transmission in the US. However, we've seen numbers ...

Vitamin D supplementation during TB treatment improves patient symptoms, but does not accelerate the clearance of TB bacteria.

A TB outbreak in Kansas has people around the country worried. These facts will help you put the risk in ...

This study presents TBorNotTB, a CDSS designed to improve TB evaluation and streamline isolation decisions, reducing labor while maintaining detection accuracy.

After the CDC said the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak isn't the largest in documented history, KDHE clarified they meant the largest in a single year.

Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 ...

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. This study was aimed at exploring pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) epidemiological characteristics and trends in China from 2016 to 2022, to ...

As Kansas deals with one of the largest tuberculous outbreaks in the nation since the 1950s, Californians may be wondering ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says Kansas is facing the largest documented tuberculosis outbreak in history. 27 News spoke to KDHE Communications Director Jill Bronaugh who said the ...

While TB cases have been rising nationally in recent years, public health officials continue to emphasize there is no threat ...

The outbreak poses “very low risk to the general public, including the surrounding counties,” the Kansas Department of Health ...