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.

State health officials in Kansas have issued a warning to healthcare providers this week as measles cases climb across the ...

(KAMR/KCIT) — The Kansas State Department of Health and Environment along with Seward County Health Department have released data pertaining to the past 12 months of tuberculosis cases in Seward ...

Virtually nothing is known about the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak. This disease surpassed COVID as the leading disease cause of death in the world.

Two Kansas counties are reporting active cases of tuberculosis (TB) in the largest reported outbreak of the respiratory disease ...

Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

“Tuberculosis outbreaks are often indications of ... Jill Bronaugh, communications director at the Kansas Department of ...

Kansas is "below the herd immunity threshold" for measles, as measured by KDHE's estimated MMR immunization rates for kindergarten students.

Tuberculosis takes close ... the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment came to Kansas City, Kansas, to assist the Wyandotte County Public ...

As of Jan. 24, 67 cases of active tuberculosis related to the outbreak have been confirmed by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Additionally, 79 latent tuberculosis cases have been ...

The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an ...

Tuberculosis takes close, repeated contact to contract. When the cases started to spike last summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...