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

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.

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 cases in Johnson ... Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis ...

The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. From David ...

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 ...

As The Associated Press reported, as of January 2024, 67 people are being treated for active TB, most of them in Wyandotte County, Bronaugh said.

According to the outbreak tracker website maintained by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, several dozen patients have been treated in Wyandotte County. State and local health ...