State public health officials are adding more nuance on a previous claim about an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area. Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...

The number of tuberculosis cases linked to an outbreak in the Kansas City area continues to swell, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The outbreak, which began a year ago, ...

The Unified Government Public Health Department of Wyandotte County in downtown Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Thursday confirmed a tuberculosis outbreak in ...

Currently, Kansas is facing one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history. As of Jan. 24, 67 cases of active ...

Kansas has reported one of its largest tuberculosis outbreaks since the 1950s, beginning in Wyandotte County. But infectious disease expert Dr. Dana Hawkinson says the risk to most residents is ...

Editor’s note: U.S. News has updated this story due to information provided by the CDC. Read on for more detail. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is countering a claim by Kansas health ...

(WXYZ) — In today’s Health Alert, the tuberculosis outbreak continues to infect dozens of people in Kansas. Two people lost their lives last year, and right now ...

In late January 2025, news outlets reported on an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in the Kansas City, Kansas, area. According to several of these reports, and posts sharing the news on social media, the ...

This story has been updated to clarify some CDC statistics. An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in the state's history, and while the risk of contracting the bacterial ...

Kansas City, Kan. (AP) - A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S.

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. Online data from the Kansas ...

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 ...