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.

Tuberculosis outbreak at Long Beach hotel to lead to public health emergency There have been 14 confirmed cases of the disease since Monday, April 29, with another 170 people potentially infected.

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. The ...

In a state Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare meeting, Ashley Goss, ... said this is the largest tuberculosis outbreak documented in the U.S. since the ’50s.

"Currently, Kansas has the largest outbreak that they've ever had in history," Ashley Goss, a deputy secretary at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, told the state Senate’s Public ...

Recent TB Outbreak in Kansas City. In a press release, KDHE explained that this outbreak has been ongoing since January 2024, with most patients infected in early 2024 and throughout the summer.

Greiner and multiple other public health officials said the general public is not at risk of catching tuberculosis from this outbreak. Tuberculosis takes close, repeated contact to contract.

Bullish on their success, the global public health enterprise turned to another threat: polio. Eliminating polio would ...

Outbreaks in Baffin Island communities of Pangnirtung and Pond Inlet considered over but surveillance will continue, top ...

Last month, mayors in 14 Nunavik communities alleged there were budget cuts to the health board and demanded for them to be ...