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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

A Kansas Department of Health and Environment official told a Kansas Senate committee Tuesday the agency continues to work to resolve an "unprecedented" tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte County.

Active TB patients are typically non-contagious after 10 days of treatment. Wyandotte County has been the hardest hit, but health officials maintain that the general public remains at "very low risk." ...

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.

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 ...

Since 2024, there have been 2 latent cases in Johnson County and 77 cases in Wyandotte County, ... The numbers mark the largest tuberculosis outbreak in recorded history in the U.S., ...

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; ...