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 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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - Wyandotte County leaders say there is no reason to panic over reports that Kansas City, Kansas, has one of the largest documented TB outbreaks since the 1950s.

Wyandotte County’s public health officer ... partners that we can effectively respond to and mitigate the tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties. We will continue to collaborate ...

While TB cases have been rising nationally in recent years, public health officials continue to emphasize there is no threat ...

Staffers at the jail and homeless shelters in Wyandotte County, where the outbreak is centered, told me that public health officials have not traced the outbreak to them. That appears to leave us with ...

Wyandotte County contains part of Kansas City and ... Although the ongoing Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is among the largest in recent history, the CDC clarifies today that it is not the "largest ...

Correction & clarification: This story has been updated to correct when the outbreak began. It’s January 2024. Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the ...

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 NEWS SERVICE) - The director of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department ... turmoil during the handling of the major tuberculosis outbreak, shown by emails obtained by the Kansas ...

No, there is not a tuberculosis outbreak in Ohio ... There are currently 67 active tuberculosis cases in a two-county area of Kansas, and 79 latent cases, which means the infected individuals ...