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 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 ...

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 ... partners that we can effectively respond to and mitigate the tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties. We will continue to collaborate ...

Staffers at the jail and homeless shelters in Wyandotte County, where the outbreak is centered, told me that public health officials have not traced the outbreak to them. That appears to leave us with ...

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 ...

Wyandotte County contains part of Kansas City and ... “The current Kansas City, Kan. Metro tuberculosis (TB) outbreak is the largest documented outbreak in U.S. history, presently (since the ...

KDHE also reported 67 active TB outbreak-related cases in the Kansas City metro area, with 60 in Wyandotte County and 7 in Johnson County. 2 Additionally, there have been 79 outbreak-associated ...

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.

Headline: Red Flag Warning from THU 12:00 PM MST until THU 7:00 PM MST Bulletin: ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM CST /NOON MST/ TO 8 PM CST /7 PM MST/ THURSDAY FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE ...

TB is preventable and treatable — yet ... This harms our county government and negatively impacts the residents of Wyandotte County.” This outbreak isn’t happening in isolation.

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.