Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to one of the largest in U.S.

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 Department ...

WYANDOTTE COUNTY, Kan. — Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas are facing the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, according to health officials. The outbreak, as reported ...

"Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. From David ...

Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area. Some staff think the tension set back the tuberculosis ...

Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern ... So far, officials have reported 60 active cases in Wyandotte County and 7 active cases in Johnson County ...

The state has seen tuberculosis cases double between 2023 and 2024, with the CDC offering support on the ground.

Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 ...

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

The director of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department ... head of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming one of the largest in recent ...

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.