Virtually nothing is known about the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak. This disease surpassed COVID as the leading disease cause ...
But the relative size of the outbreak is irrelevant. Kansas numbers continue to grow, and Dr. William Schaffner, infectious ...
Kansas has experienced a significant outbreak of tuberculosis with 67 active infections and even more latent cases of the disease.
Since January 2024, dozens of tuberculosis cases have been found around Kansas City. TB may seem like a disease of the ...
Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...
Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...
The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an ...
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.
Indeed, the pathogen seems like ancient history — but as recent developments indicate, tuberculosis isn’t done with us yet.
No, you probably didn’t get tuberculosis at Sunday’s Chiefs game. A yearlong outbreak of the bacterial disease in the Kansas City metropolitan area has raised concerns about spread locally and ...