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 is experiencing one of the largest recorded tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in U.S. history, as experts warn of a growing crisis in public health, worsened by recent legislative restrictions ...

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 ...

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

“When public health services weaken, one of the first things you will see is outbreaks of TB.” I asked him what he meant by ...

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

Public health experts emphasize the importance ... from the COVID-19 pandemic that can be applied to managing the Kansas City TB outbreak. He emphasized the importance of balanced communication ...

Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...

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