Tuberculosis can lead to red or purple swelling under the skin if the lymph nodes are infected, headache or confusion should the brain be infected, or blood in the uring of people with infected ...

The two types of tests that can detect a TB infection are a blood test and a skin test. The blood test, also called an interferon-gamma release assay, measures how your immune system reacts to ...

No, you probably didn’t get tuberculosis at Sunday’s Chiefs game. A yearlong outbreak of the bacterial disease in the Kansas City metropolitan area has raised concerns about spread locally and ...

TB infections have been rising every year since 2020 after 30 years of decline. Now, a historic outbreak in Kansas is highlighting the disturbing trend. A colorized X-ray of a patient's chest ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis in Kansas has infected dozens of people in the state over the past year, raising concern from health officials even as they note it is not the greatest outbreak of ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if ...

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A tuberculosis outbreak that began a year ago in two counties in the Kansas City, Kan., area has caused 67 active cases and 79 latent cases of the disease. Two deaths have been reported.

The skin surrounding each of the ulcers was hyperpigmented ... There was no past or family history of tuberculosis. Systemic examination was unremarkable. Results of blood analyses on presentation ...

Even with life-saving vaccines and antibiotics, tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s most deadly infectious diseases. Now, an international clinical trial has found three new safe and ...

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