How big is the tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas? As of Jan. 24, 67 people are being treated for active TB, most of them in ...

Is Kansas TB Outbreak a Record? Editor’s note: U.S. News has updated this story due to information provided by the CDC. Read on for more detail. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is ...

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 ...

Read on for more detail. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is countering a claim by Kansas health officials that an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the state has become the largest ...

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 ...

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City metropolitan area straddling Kansas and Missouri has made headlines across the country, a rare feat for an infectious disease too often ignored ...

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.

A tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has become the largest documented on record in the United States. As of Jan. 24, 2025, there have been 67 active cases reported in Wyandotte County ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says the tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte County and the Kansas City metro area is “unprecedented.” The Wyandotte County Public Health ...

An unprecedented wave of tuberculosis infections has struck ... Health and Welfare Committee Tuesday: “Currently, Kansas has the largest outbreak that they’ve ever had in history.” ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis in Kansas has become the largest recorded outbreak of the illness in the U.S., with nearly 70 active cases since last year. A doctor examines the x-rays of a ...

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state ...