The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says the tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte County and the Kansas City metro area ... Patients are being treated by their local health departments, and ...

Is there a tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas ... Control and Prevention (CDC) began monitoring TB cases in the U.S. in the 1950s. As of Jan. 24, 2025, there are 67 individuals, including 60 in Wyandotte ...

Sixty of these active cases are in Wyandotte County, and the remaining seven are in Johnson ... body for years without causing symptoms ― from becoming active, the CDC says. Kansas’ health department ...

The state has seen tuberculosis cases double between 2023 and 2024, with the CDC offering support on the ground.

According to CDC spokesperson Melissa Dibble ... of the active cases are in Wyandotte County and seven are in Johnson County. Kansas Deputy Secretary for Public Health Ashley Goss first claimed ...

As of Jan. 24, there have been 67 confirmed cases of active TB including 60 in Wyandotte County ... CDC, which has dispatched a team to help with the ongoing outbreak. Health officials in Kansas ...

Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to one of the largest in U.S.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said as of Friday there had been 67 “outbreak associated active cases” reported since 2024, with 60 of them in Wyandotte County—which ...

Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 ...