Tuberculosis outbreak at Long Beach hotel to lead to public health emergency There have been 14 confirmed cases of the disease since Monday, April 29, with another 170 people potentially infected.

Nunavut’s health department has declared an end to tuberculosis outbreaks in Pangnirtung and Pond Inlet. Arviat and Naujaat ...

The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an important public health lesson.

In a state Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare meeting, Ashley Goss, ... said this is the largest tuberculosis outbreak documented in the U.S. since the ’50s.

Kansas is currently experiencing a large tuberculosis outbreak, but federal health officials are countering the claim it’s a U.S. record.

Recent TB Outbreak in Kansas City. In a press release, KDHE explained that this outbreak has been ongoing since January 2024, with most patients infected in early 2024 and throughout the summer.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment clarifies that the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City is the largest in the US over a one-year period, not the largest ever recorded. The ...

Long Beach’s public health emergency over an outbreak of tuberculosis will continue for the next month, even though the health department said this week the outbreak remains contained and people ...

Greiner and multiple other public health officials said the general public is not at risk of catching tuberculosis from this outbreak. Tuberculosis takes close, repeated contact to contract.

“When public health services weaken, one of the first things you will see is outbreaks of TB.” I asked him what he meant by that and he told me that the “concern is there are other outbreaks ...