According to Greiner, starting in 2021, there was a small cluster of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis cases in Wyandotte County. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, health ...

After tuberculosis outbreak, Wyandotte County parts ways with health director KCUR | By Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga Published February 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM CST ...

As diagnosed tuberculosis cases have surged in Wyandotte County this year, local public health officials are putting forward a roughly $1 million plan to deal with the outbreak.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Thursday confirmed a tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte County, with more cases than the entire state recorded last year. In response to ...

Health officials have confirmed almost 50 cases of tuberculosis in Wyandotte County, more than in all of Kansas last year. But the public risk remains low. The Kansas Department of Health and ...

Kansas health officials reported that as of Jan. 24, there are 67 people who have contracted active TB in both counties: 60 people in Wyandotte County; seven in Johnson County.

Wyandotte County and KCK are home to the largest tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history. ... Tuberculosis is usually transmitted when you’re around an infected person for an extended period of time.

Sixty of the active infections have been identified in Wyandotte County and the other seven in Johnson County. “The current Kansas City, Kan. Metro tuberculosis outbreak is the largest ...

According to Greiner, starting in 2021, there was a small cluster of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis cases in Wyandotte County. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ...

After tuberculosis outbreak, Wyandotte County parts ways with health director. Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga/KMUW; Feb 15, 2025 Feb 15, 2025 Updated Feb 15, 2025; Facebook; Twitter; ...

Wyandotte County and KCK are home to the largest tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history. ... Tuberculosis is usually transmitted when you’re around an infected person for an extended period of time.

Greiner called the current case surge in Wyandotte County “unprecedented.” He said normally Wyandotte County sees about under 10 cases annually and he has never seen a tuberculosis surge this ...