Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...
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.
Elisha Caldwell had been head of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming ...
"Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...
The KDHE reports, as of Jan. 24, 2025, there are 67 people who have contracted active TB in both counties: 60 people in Wyandotte County; seven in Johnson County. "The current Kansas City ...
The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. From David ...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - Wyandotte County leaders say there is no reason to panic over reports that Kansas City, Kansas, has one of the largest documented TB outbreaks since the 1950s.
Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 ...
The state has seen tuberculosis cases double between 2023 and 2024, with the CDC offering support on the ground.
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 is ... of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming one of the largest in recent ...
Common symptoms of active TB include coughing ... In September, Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, commissioners approved a $1 million plan to use leftover COVID ...