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.

Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just ...

Tuberculosis takes close ... Kansas Department of Health and Environment came to Kansas City, Kansas, to assist the Wyandotte County Public Health Department with the outbreak.

A photo of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department in Kansas City, Kansas. Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis ...

News of a Kansas tuberculosis outbreak centered in Wyandotte and Johnson County comes as likely tens of thousands of fans from the region are about to head to the Super Bowl which will be played ...

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

He was on Day Two of driving to a sheriff’s conference in New Orleans and two hours from his destination. The information ...

A Kansas City, Kansas, man found guilty of robbing and killing two Wyandotte County sheriff’s deputies who were transporting ...

Wyandotte County contains part of Kansas City ... both of which occurred last year. “The current Kansas City, Kan. Metro tuberculosis (TB) outbreak is the largest documented outbreak in U.S ...

A Wyandotte County judge ordered a man to serve two life sentences without the chance for parole Thursday for the killing of two sheriff’s deputies during a jail transfer.

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.

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