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.

Reports of TB date back to the time of Hippocrates, but the Kansas outbreak shows that the ancient disease is very much a ...

In late January 2025, news outlets reported on an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in the Kansas City, Kansas, area. According to several of these reports, and posts sharing the news on social media ...

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City metropolitan area straddling Kansas and Missouri has made headlines across the country, a rare feat for an infectious disease too often ignored ...

But the relative size of the outbreak is irrelevant. Kansas numbers continue to grow, and Dr. William Schaffner, infectious ...

Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...

Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to one of the largest in U.S. history. The county's health director is no longer with the agency as of ...

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said it should be noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first began monitoring and reporting cases in 1950. An ongoing ...

A year-long outbreak in Kansas has killed two people since it started last January. Here's what to know in Florida.

The Kansas City TB outbreak has 67 active cases ... effective communication and proactive screening to curb the recent tuberculosis (TB) outbreak. In a press release, KDHE explained that this ...