A photo of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department in Kansas City, Kansas. Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis ...

Elisha Caldwell had been head of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming one of the largest in recent U.S. history.

Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to one of the largest in U.S. history. The county's health director is no longer with the agency as of ...

KDHE also reported 67 active TB outbreak-related cases in the Kansas City metro area, with 60 in Wyandotte County and 7 in Johnson County. 2 Additionally, there have been 79 outbreak-associated ...

Since 2024, there also have been, in total, two latent cases in Johnson County and 77 latent cases in Wyandotte County, which sits at the Missouri border, USA TODAY reported.

A major tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area has sickened dozens of people and killed two. What to know about TB symptoms, spread, and treatment. Jan. 30, 2025, 10:50 AM PST / Source: TODAY ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis. [Photo: NIAID] The ongoing yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in the Kansas City, Kansas, area continues to perplex health authorities, a full year after it began.

The Wyandotte County Public Health Department building at 619 Ann Ave., is seen on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Kansas City, Kansas. 28,466 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you ...

Notably, in 2021, Kansas experienced an outbreak of multidrug-resistant TB that affected just over a dozen people. These infections are trickier to treat because the bacteria show resistance to ...

The Wyandotte County Public Health Department building at 619 Ann Ave., is seen on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Kansas City, Kansas. Emily Curiel [email protected] Reality Check is a Star series ...

“The total case count of tuberculosis associated with the current outbreak in the Kansas City, Kan Metro area (Wyandotte and Johnson counties) from Jan. 2024 to present is 67, making it the largest ...

So far, officials have reported 60 active cases in Wyandotte County and 7 active cases in Johnson County, according to data from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.