Wyandotte County is currently facing the largest outbreak of tuberculosis in United States, state officials say. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reports 67 active infections of the ...

Correction & clarification: This story has been updated to correct when the outbreak began. It’s January 2024. Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the ...

began tracking tuberculosis cases. Some posters used the opportunity to criticize U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to freeze communications from federal health agencies. Snopes readers wrote ...

The number of tuberculosis cases linked to an outbreak in the Kansas City area continues to swell, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The outbreak, which began a year ...

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 ...

People who test positive will be further screened to determine whether they have active TB disease or a latent TB infection, “which will help determine the best treatment,” according to the ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis in Kansas has become the largest recorded outbreak of the illness in the U.S., with nearly 70 active cases since last year. A doctor examines the x-rays of a ...

This story has been updated to clarify some CDC statistics. An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in the state's history, and while the risk of contracting the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is now the "largest documented outbreak in U.S. history," Kansas health officials said Monday. The Kansas Department ...

They are conducting TB testing at no cost. Any patients who test positive will receive further screening to determine whether their case is active or latent. Uninsured people as well as those ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (TNND) — Health officials in Kansas said they have been dealing with an "unprecedented" tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in the northeastern part of the state. Online data from the ...