State public health officials are adding more nuance on a previous claim about an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area. Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...

Virtually nothing is known about the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak. This disease surpassed COVID as the leading disease cause ...

Two people have died in connection to what public health officials are calling America's largest tuberculosis outbreak since monitoring began in the 1950s. Kansas Department of Health and ...

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.

"KDHE has not exercised its authority to issue legal isolation and quarantine orders in several years — other than the current tuberculosis outbreak, which, yes, we have exercised isolation ...

Health officials are raising the alarm over a large and ongoing tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas. According to data from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), the cases have ...

“Tuberculosis outbreaks are often indications of weakness ... Jill Bronaugh, communications director at the Kansas Department ...

Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s.

tuberculosis (TB) infections reported over the last year, including 77 in Wyandotte County and two in Johnson County. KDHE has reportedly been working with local health departments in response to ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment clarifies that the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City is the largest in the US over a one-year period, not the largest ever recorded.