Why doesn’t the public know more about the troubling tuberculosis outbreak in eastern Kansas? The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) is tracking 384 individuals with suspected ...

Mammalian hosts coordinate various cell death pathways as part of the immune defense system against pathogens including ...

Health officials confirmed a person at a West Michigan high school was diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB). On Jan. 31, 2025, the Kalamazoo County Health and Community Services Department notified ...

Introduction Urban homeless populations in the UK have been shown to have high rates of active tuberculosis, but less is known ... collected by dedicated research team using a paper-based ...

Rationale Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) can cause post-TB lung disease ... respiratory exposures and the St George’s Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ). Health seeking and medical history were ...

Objectives Malnutrition is associated with a twofold higher risk of dying in patients with tuberculosis (TB ... that used self-reporting of diet quality and a food frequency questionnaire as ...

They will be notified soon and provided with a questionnaire and ... Because tuberculosis is not common in the US, disease control in the form of questionaries and testing mitigates the risk ...

Hundreds of people in New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania are sickened with TB every year, but a recent deadly outbreak in Kansas has some worried about the disease’s spread. Tuberculosis ...

Health officials are raising the alarm over a large and ongoing tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas. According to data from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), the cases have ...

It’s January 2024. Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern part of the state, with 67 cases since 2024. So far, officials have reported 60 active ...

Kansas is experiencing its most significant tuberculosis outbreak, with 67 active and 79 latent cases reported in Wyandotte and Johnson counties. Despite the outbreak's scale, health officials ...

“We need constant surveillance and suppression to keep TB in a latent form,” says Jeffrey Cox, professor of immunology and pathogenesis at University of California, Berkeley. “If you remove ...