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.

Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just ...

Wyandotte County’s public health officer ... While it’s unclear whether or not bickering at the local and state level slowed TB response, it certainly made things harder.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - Wyandotte County leaders say there is no reason to panic over reports that Kansas City, Kansas, has one of the largest documented TB outbreaks since the 1950s.

The conflicts centered around things as basic as the use of Wyandotte County office space and escalated from there. The state ultimately took over the TB response as outbreak-related numbers ...

that what ties the Kansas TB cases together is either homelessness, incarcerated populations or immigration status. Staffers at the jail and homeless shelters in Wyandotte County, where the ...