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.

The conflicts centered around things as basic as the use of Wyandotte County office space and escalated from there. The state ultimately took over the TB response as outbreak-related numbers ...

Wyandotte County’s public health officer ... partners that we can effectively respond to and mitigate the tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties. We will continue to collaborate ...

Staffers at the jail and homeless shelters in Wyandotte County, where the outbreak is centered, told me that public health officials have not traced the outbreak to them. That appears to leave us with ...

Wyandotte County contains part of Kansas City and ... “The current Kansas City, Kan. Metro tuberculosis (TB) outbreak is the largest documented outbreak in U.S. history, presently (since the ...

Correction & clarification: This story has been updated to correct when the outbreak began. It’s January 2024. Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the ...

KDHE also reported 67 active TB outbreak-related cases in the Kansas City metro area, with 60 in Wyandotte County and 7 in Johnson County. 2 Additionally, there have been 79 outbreak-associated ...

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.

(KANSAS NEWS SERVICE) - The director of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department ... turmoil during the handling of the major tuberculosis outbreak, shown by emails obtained by the Kansas ...

“Tuberculosis outbreaks are often indications of weakness ... Staffers at the jail and homeless shelters in Wyandotte County, where the outbreak is centered, told me that public health officials ...

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.