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

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

state and federal public health officials have been tracking one of the nation’s largest outbreaks of tuberculosis in decades ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment clarifies that the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City is the largest in the US over a one-year period, not the largest ever recorded.

Kansas is dealing with one of the largest outbreaks of tuberculosis recorded in a single year in the United States since the 1950s, state health officials say. The outbreak in the Kansas City area ...

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

An outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City area has grown into one of the largest ever recorded in the United States, with dozens of active cases of the infectious disease reported, according to ...

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

Indeed, the pathogen seems like ancient history — but as recent developments indicate, tuberculosis isn’t done with us yet.

Kansas has experienced a significant outbreak of tuberculosis with 67 active infections and even more latent cases of the ...