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

The Kansas City TB outbreak has 67 active cases, with 35 cured and 30 under treatment, and two deaths reported. TB cases have risen nationally and globally, with the US reporting the highest ...

Why doesn’t the public know more about the troubling tuberculosis outbreak in eastern Kansas? The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) is tracking 384 individuals with suspected ...

Kansas is dealing with the largest TB outbreak in modern U.S. history. Here's what to know about tuberculosis testing and cases in Tennessee in 2025.

"KDHE has not exercised its authority to issue legal isolation and quarantine orders in several years — other than the current tuberculosis outbreak, which, yes, we have exercised isolation ...

In the beginning, CDC and KDHE staff were temporarily housed at the Wyandotte County Public Health Department. On Aug. 15, Caldwell sent an email to Lauren Swensson, the state’s TB controller ...

the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has been responding to an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak that began in January 2024. Data derived from the Kansas Department of Health and ...

Kansas is experiencing its largest tuberculosis outbreak in ... According to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the outbreak poses a "very low risk to the general public, including ...

The relationships KDHE maintains with local ... of these partners that we can effectively respond to and mitigate the tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties.

The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. From David ...

First, the facts: The tuberculosis outbreak has been ... Hawkinson and his colleagues, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and the CDC have been screening, testing, and treating ...

and 79 latent TB cases, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. While New Jersey’s TB cases for 2024 are not yet available, the outbreak has people concerned this 20th ...