2 days ago · A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state health official claimed last week.

3 days ago · The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says the tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte County and the KC-metro area is “unprecedented.”

1 day ago · A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback.

3 days ago · Here is what you should know about tuberculosis in the Kansas City area, from Dr. Dana Hawkinson, medical director of infection prevention and control at the University of Kansas Health System.

2 days ago · Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 confirmed latent cases.

2 days ago · A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has caused dozens of illnesses and at least two deaths, according to the state health department.

2 days ago · State health officials said that dozens of people in the Kansas City, Kan., area have the disease, which has drawn a federal response.

4 days ago · The outbreak started last January. Kansas health officials say numbers are trending downward, but they still expect to find more cases.

2 days ago · The number of tuberculosis cases linked to an outbreak in the Kansas City area continues to swell, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The outbreak, which began a year ...

3 days ago · A tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City has become the largest documented TB outbreak on record in the United States. Data on the outbreak from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) show that 67 active TB cases and 79 latent cases have been reported since the beginning of 2024 in Wyandotte and Johnson counties, which are ...