KANSAS CITY - A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S ...

So far, 67 active TB infections have been reported in the Kansas City area as of Jan. 24, since 2024, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment‘s Division of Public Health.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has become the largest documented TB outbreak in the United States since monitoring began in the 1950s ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has become the largest documented TB outbreak in the United States since monitoring began in the 1950s ...

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has become the largest documented TB outbreak in the United States since monitoring began in the 1950s ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has become the largest documented TB outbreak in the United States since monitoring began in the 1950s ...

Tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs, has long been considered rare in the U.S. Recently, the Kansas City metro area reported a spike in TB, prompting several ...

How big is the tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas? As of Jan. 24, 67 people are being treated for active TB, most of them in Wyandotte County, Bronaugh said. Another 79 have latent TB.