The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says the tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte County and the Kansas City metro area is “unprecedented.” The Wyandotte County Public Health Department ...

KDHE's TB tracker can be found here. WYANDOTTE COUNTY, Kan. — Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas are facing the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, according to health ...

seven in Johnson County. "The current Kansas City, Kan. Metro tuberculosis outbreak is the largest documented outbreak in U.S. history, presently (since the 1950's when the Centers for Disease ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In response to a tuberculosis outbreak, the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment (JCDHE), the Wyandotte County Public Health Department, and the Kansas ...

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

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

Is there a tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas? Yes, there is a tuberculosis outbreak ... As of Jan. 24, 2025, there are 67 individuals, including 60 in Wyandotte County and seven in Johnson County, ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis in Kansas has become the largest recorded ... County—which encompasses Kansas City—and seven in Johnson County, which is just south of Wyandotte.

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

Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern part of the state, with 67 active cases since 2024, marking one of the largest outbreaks in recorded history of the ...

Without government funding, research to fight tuberculosis would probably never have happened and countless lives would have ...