The Kansas City, Missouri, Health Department announced on Friday, Jan. 31, that the metro continues to maintain low numbers ...

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

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Health Department said on Friday that Kansas City, Missouri continues to maintain low tuberculosis case numbers with no signs of an active outbreak. The health ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is now the "largest documented outbreak in U.S. history," Kansas health officials said Monday.. The Kansas Department ...

The Kansas City area accounted for over 70% of Kansas’ 109 active tuberculosis cases in 2024. Out of those 109 cases statewide, people between the ages of 25 and 44 accounted for the most cases.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has become the largest documented TB outbreak in the United States since monitoring began in the 1950s ...

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 Kansas City area is facing one of the country’s largest outbreaks of tuberculosis in recent years. According to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, as of Jan. 24, there have ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (TNND) — Health officials in Kansas said they have been dealing with an "unprecedented" tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in the northeastern part of the state.

Kansas is not the only state in the region dealing with tuberculosis. In Missouri, its neighbor to the east, 87 cases of the disease had been recorded from Jan. 1 through Tuesday, according to the ...

The Kansas City, Missouri, Health Department announced on Friday, Jan. 31, that the metro continues to maintain low numbers of tuberculosis cases with no signs of an active outbreak.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Health Department said on Friday that Kansas City, Missouri continues to maintain low ...