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

Kansas City-area residents may be alarmed to hear that Wyandotte County is at the epicenter of the largest recorded ...

The outbreak poses “very low risk to the general public, including the surrounding counties,” the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said.

In an interview with The American Journal of Managed Care, Michael A. Bernstein, MD, stressed the need for effective ...

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

A tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has killed two people and caused at least 146 to become infected with the potentially deadly respiratory disease during one of the largest outbreaks in the nation's ...

Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern part of the state, with 67 active cases ...

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.

Currently, there are 67 people being treated for TB cases on the Kansas side of the Kansas City area — 60 in Wyandotte County and seven others in Johnson County. There are also 79 confirmed latent TB ...

The current tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in the Kansas City metro area is the largest documented ... As of Jan. 24, 2025, there ...

Common symptoms of active TB include coughing ... In September, Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, commissioners approved a $1 million plan to use leftover COVID ...