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.

Virtually nothing is known about the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak. This disease surpassed COVID as the leading disease cause of death in the world.

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 ...

Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City metropolitan area straddling Kansas and Missouri has made headlines across the country, a rare feat for an infectious disease too often ignored ...

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

“Tuberculosis outbreaks are often indications of weakness ... me that the “concern is there are other outbreaks we are ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said it should be noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first began monitoring and reporting cases in 1950. An ongoing ...

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Tuberculosis is the world’s deadliest disease and has claimed at least two lives during a current breakout in the greater Kansas City area. Photo by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

The Kansas City TB outbreak has 67 active cases ... effective communication and proactive screening to curb the recent tuberculosis (TB) outbreak. In a press release, KDHE explained that this ...

Two Kansas counties are reporting active cases of tuberculosis (TB) in the largest reported outbreak of the respiratory disease ...