An outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in the Kansas City area has grown into one of the largest ever recorded in the US. Dozens of ...

The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an important public health lesson.

Kansas City tuberculosis outbreak Since January 2024, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment has confirmed 67 active ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis. [Photo: NIAID] The ongoing yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in the Kansas City, Kansas, area continues to perplex health authorities, a full year after it began.

What To Know About Kansas City Tuberculosis Outbreak Officials Called 'Unprecedented' In the last 12 months, 67 active cases of TB had been reported in the Kansas City, Kansas, area.

The Kansas City area accounted for over 70% of Kansas’ 109 active tuberculosis cases in 2024. Out of those 109 cases statewide, people between the ages of 25 and 44 accounted for the most cases.

State and local public health officials in Kansas are responding to a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in the Kansas City area, where approximately 70 patients are being treated for active disease, ...

67 active TB cases reported in Kansas City area 384 people managed for TB testing and treatment CDC assists with contact tracing and health education Jan 29 (Reuters) - An outbreak of tuberculosis ...

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 ...

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 tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has become the largest documented on record in the United States. As of Jan. 24, 2025, there have been 67 active cases reported in Wyandotte County ...