Getty The city of Long Beach, Calif., has declared a public health emergency following a tuberculosis outbreak that’s been traced to a hotel in the area that may have exposed up to 170 people to ...

Long Beach officials declared a public health emergency Thursday afternoon after one person died and nine others were hospitalized due to a tuberculosis outbreak in the city. The city’s chief ...

Under a new law, local health officials will have to prove “probable cause” to make someone quarantine. Orders about public gatherings and masking will just be recommendations now.

Just this week, a case of TB was reported at Waukegan High School in Illinois. While the disease can be treated with antibiotics, resistance is becoming more of an issue. And Trump's health ...

Public health workers identified more than 170 active TB cases and more than 400 latent cases from 2015 to 2017. And in 2021, a nationwide outbreak linked to contaminated tissue used in bone ...

In the wake of dramatic cuts to US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) staff, cutbacks for state public health ...

Getty Kansas has an outbreak of two diseases — measles and tuberculosis — as lawmakers ... March 28 update from the Kansas Division of Public Health. Most of the cases (61) are in Wyandotte ...

Health ministers from the five Central Asian states signed a joint declaration earlier in April to bolster cooperation on ...

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Kansas Governor Laura Kelly has vetoed a bill that would take authority away from local health officials with regard to public gatherings during health emergencies ...