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.

The breakdown includes 60 in Wyandotte County and seven in Johnson County. TB is spread through the air from one person to another and is put into the air when a person with active TB disease of ...

While TB cases have been rising nationally in recent years, public health officials continue to emphasize there is no threat ...

Since January 2024, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment has confirmed 67 active TB cases involved in this outbreak, including 60 in Wyandotte County and seven in neighboring Johnson ...

Since 2024, there have been 2 latent cases in Johnson County and 77 cases in Wyandotte ... Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis, according ...

Health reports from Jan. 24, 2025 show67 people are sick with active TB cases: 60 in Wyandotte County and seven in Johnson County. An additional 79 people in the two counties are sick with latent ...

Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern part of the state, with 67 active cases since 2024, marking one of the largest outbreaks in recorded history of the ...