Kansas Department of Health and Environment ... for Disease Control and Prevention started reporting TB cases in the 1950s. A CDC spokesperson said that isn't accurate, pointing to an outbreak ...

Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...

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

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.

The state usually only sees a handful of TB cases each year. In 2023, the CDC recorded 46 active TB cases in Kansas, says Bronaugh. “It’s a substantial outbreak of tuberculosis,” Dr. William ...

The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an ...

Just a couple of years ago, there was a smaller TB outbreak in Kansas. After the outbreak was contained, the CDC reported ...

The outbreak, which began in January 2024, has resulted in 67 confirmed active tuberculosis cases and 79 confirmed latent cases, with two deaths. The CDC is providing on-site assistance in Kansas ...

A CDC spokesperson said that isn't accurate ... Kansas public health officials now say an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, area is the largest in a single year in recorded ...