Kansas health officials are tackling the largest tuberculosis outbreak in US history, with 67 confirmed cases since the start of 2025.

A Kansas Department of Health and Environment official told a Kansas Senate committee Tuesday the agency continues to work to ...

You don’t need to have the vaccine to attend colleges in Kansas, but some do require you to get tested for tuberculosis ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says the tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte County and the Kansas City metro area is “unprecedented.” The Wyandotte County Public Health ...

Wyandotte County leaders are asking people to “remain calm” and remember that the risk of contracting TB is low for most people. According to the CDC, TB is a disease caused by germs that spread ...

An unprecedented tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas has reached historic levels, becoming one of the largest ever recorded ...

there are 67 people being treated for TB cases on the Kansas side of the Kansas City area — 60 in Wyandotte County and seven others in Johnson County. There are also 79 confirmed latent TB cases ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, are expanding on-demand Ride KC services to include a new Northeast Microtransit Zone, they announced ...

More than 60 people were being treated in the Kansas City area as of Friday, according to the state health department.

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.

The outbreak poses “very low risk to the general public, including the surrounding counties,” the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said.

Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas are facing the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, according to ...