Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

Kansas City-area residents may be alarmed to hear that Wyandotte County is at the epicenter of the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, according to state health officials.

State data shows 60 of the active cases are in Wyandotte County and seven are in Johnson County. Kansas Deputy Secretary for Public Health Ashley Goss first claimed that the state’s TB outbreak ...

So far, officials have reported 60 active cases in Wyandotte County and 7 active ... and Prevention. Two TB-related conditions exist: inactive TB and active TB. Kansas health officials said ...

Wyandotte County has been the hardest hit ... This article was updated to reflect the fact that the current TB outbreak in Kansas is not the largest in U.S. record, according to the CDC.

Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern part of the state, with 67 active cases since 2024, marking one of the largest outbreaks in recorded history of the ...

that what ties the Kansas TB cases together is either homelessness, incarcerated populations or immigration status. Staffers at the jail and homeless shelters in Wyandotte County, where the ...

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 ...

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.