State public health officials are adding more nuance on a previous claim about an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area. Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in the state's history, and while the risk of contracting the ...

The Unified Government Public Health Department of Wyandotte County in downtown Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Thursday confirmed a tuberculosis outbreak in ...

Kansas has reported one of its largest tuberculosis outbreaks since the 1950s, beginning in Wyandotte County. But infectious disease expert Dr. Dana Hawkinson says the risk to most residents is ...

Editor’s note: U.S. News has updated this story due to information provided by the CDC. Read on for more detail. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is countering a claim by Kansas health ...

(WXYZ) — In today’s Health Alert, the tuberculosis outbreak continues to infect dozens of people in Kansas. Two people lost their lives last year, and right now ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis in Kansas has become the largest recorded outbreak of the illness in the U.S., with nearly 70 active cases since last year. A doctor examines the x-rays of a tuberculosis ...

An unprecedented tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas has reached historic levels, becoming one of the largest ever recorded in U.S. history. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (TNND) — Health officials in Kansas said they have been dealing with an "unprecedented" tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in the northeastern part of the state. Online data from the Kansas ...

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, the ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment clarifies that the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City is the largest in the US over a one-year period, not the largest ever recorded. The ...