A photo of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department in Kansas City, Kansas. Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis ...

Elisha Caldwell had been head of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, ... He started at Wyandotte County’s health department in October 2023.

The conflicts centered around things as basic as the use of Wyandotte County office space and escalated from there. The state ultimately took over the TB response as outbreak-related numbers ...

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 ...

Kansas has reported 60 active cases in Wyandotte County and seven active cases in Johnson County, ... In 2022, Texas reported 50 tuberculosis deaths and 7,415 individuals exposed to TB, ...

The Wyandotte County Public Health Department building at 619 Ann Ave., is seen on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Kansas City, Kansas. 30,899 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you ...

The Wyandotte County Public Health Department building at 619 Ann Ave., is seen on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Kansas City, Kansas. Emily Curiel [email protected] Reality Check is a Star series ...

A CDC spokesperson identified two outbreaks in the last decade linked to more tuberculosis cases than the ongoing outbreak centered in Wyandotte County.

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. Show/Post Comments. Health.

The TB vaccine is not required in Texas, ... Health reports from Jan. 24, 2025 show67 people are sick with active TB cases: 60 in Wyandotte County and seven in Johnson County.

TUESDAY, Jan. 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Kansas health officials are fighting the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in U.S. history, with 67 confirmed cases since new year began. The outbreak ...

Since 2024, there have been 2 latent cases in Johnson County and 77 cases in Wyandotte County, which sits at the Missouri border. ... TB is spread through the air from one person to another.