A confirmed case of active tuberculosis at Tiyan High School has prompted a required TB skin testing for individuals who may have been exposed to the bacteria causing the infectious lung disease ...

Dec. 26, 1918 County School Superintendent reports that there are 66 county schools. Four are high schools, four are semi-graded and 52 are rural schools of either first or second ...

Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern ... deaths and 7,415 individuals exposed to TB, and public health departments treated over 2,900 people ...

There have also been 79 confirmed latent TB cases. The cases have been in Wyandotte and Johnson counties. Two deaths have been connected to the outbreak. The 2015-17 outbreak cited by the CDC was ...

On Monday, Jan. 27, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said the tuberculosis outbreak is still ongoing and "there could be more cases" as it grows. Tuberculosis, also known as TB ...

An outbreak of the infectious lung disease TB in Kansas is one of the largest ever recorded in the US. What is TB, and why have cases risen since the COVID-19 ...

Two people have died in the outbreak. What to know about a tuberculosis vaccine. A tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas is raising a lot of questions about the bacterial infection, with ways to ...

The state agency has provided no information about the origin of the outbreak and did not immediately respond to The Star’s questions about which populations neighborhoods, workplaces or schools in ...

Health officials are raising the alarm over a large and ongoing tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas. According to data from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), the cases have ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is disputing Kansas public health officials’ claim that the Wyandotte County tuberculosis outbreak ... schools in Wyandotte County account for the ...