After tuberculosis outbreak, Wyandotte County parts ways with health director KCUR | By Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga Published February 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM CST ...

According to Greiner, starting in 2021, there was a small cluster of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis cases in Wyandotte County. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, health ...

Health officials have confirmed almost 50 cases of tuberculosis in Wyandotte County, more than in all of Kansas last year. But the public risk remains low. The Kansas Department of Health and ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - Wyandotte County leaders say there is no reason to panic over reports that Kansas City, Kansas, has one of the largest documented TB outbreaks since the 1950s.

As diagnosed tuberculosis cases have surged in Wyandotte County this year, local public health officials are putting forward a roughly $1 million plan to deal with the outbreak.

Kansas health officials reported that as of Jan. 24, there are 67 people who have contracted active TB in both counties: 60 people in Wyandotte County; seven in Johnson County.

Sixty of the active infections have been identified in Wyandotte County and the other seven in Johnson County. “The current Kansas City, Kan. Metro tuberculosis outbreak is the largest ...

Some 79 outbreak-associated latent infections, meaning TB was found but the person is not sick, have been reported since 2024, as well, the vast majority of which were also in Wyandotte County.

What tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte County means for the rest of Kansas. Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga and Stephen Koranda. Fri, August 23, 2024 at 9:17 AM UTC. 3 min read.

After tuberculosis outbreak, Wyandotte County parts ways with health director. Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga/KMUW; Feb 15, 2025 Feb 15, 2025 Updated Feb 15, 2025; Facebook; Twitter; ...

In response to questions from the Kansas News Service about the outbreak, a spokesperson for KDHE confirmed there have been 49 recorded cases of tuberculosis in Wyandotte County since the start of ...

In response to questions from the Kansas News Service about the outbreak, a spokesperson for KDHE confirmed there have been 49 recorded cases of tuberculosis in Wyandotte County since the start of ...