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.

3 days ago · State officials say the Wyandotte County tuberculosis outbreak is the largest in recorded U.S. history.

3 days ago · The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has reported 67 active cases since 2024, with 60 in Wyandotte County and 7 in Johnson County.

2 days ago · At least 67 people have been treated for active TB infections linked to the current outbreak.

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. …

3 days ago · Late Monday, public health officials provided additional information on what they described as America's largest tuberculosis outbreak since monitoring began in the 1950s.

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

6 days ago · A Kansas Department of Health and Environment official told a Kansas Senate committee Tuesday the agency continues to work to resolve an "unprecedented" tuberculosis …

2 days ago · The epicenter of the outbreak, which began last January and was blamed for two deaths in 2024, is in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties, according to the Kansas Department …

Aug 22, 2024 · The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Thursday confirmed a tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte County, with more cases than the entire state recorded …