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

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 ...

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

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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas Department of Health and Environment official told a Kansas Senate committee Tuesday the agency continues to work to resolve an "unprecedented" tuberculosis outbreak ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis in Kansas has become ... with 60 of them in Wyandotte County—which encompasses Kansas City—and seven in Johnson County, which is just south of Wyandotte.

Wyandotte County is currently facing the largest outbreak of tuberculosis in United States, state officials say. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reports 67 active infections of the ...

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

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 ...

In an interview with The American Journal of Managed Care, Michael A. Bernstein, MD, stressed the need for effective ...

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.