Kansas public health officials clarify claim on tuberculosis outbreak
18 hours ago · The Kansas Department of Health and Environment clarifies that the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City is the largest in the US over a one-year period, not the largest ever recorded. The ...
The tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas is alarming. It's not the …
3 days ago · 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 health official claimed last week. ... Public health workers identified more than 170 active TB cases and more than 400 latent cases from 2015 to 2017 ...
What to Know About Alarming Tuberculosis Outbreak in Kansas
2 days ago · A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback. ... Public health workers identified more than 170 active TB cases and more than 400 latent cases ...
Kansas’ tuberculosis outbreak is now the largest in the U.S. since …
4 days ago · Where is the outbreak in Kansas? The Kansas health department recorded 109 active cases of tuberculosis statewide in 2024. In 2023, the CDC recorded 46 active cases in Kansas, Bronaugh said. Bronaugh said the state recorded 79 active and 213 latent outbreak- and non-outbreak-related tuberculosis cases in Wyandotte and Johnson counties last year.
Tuberculosis Outbreaks | KDHE, KS
Outbreak Associated Cases & Latent Infections. To date, most TB cases have been in Wyandotte County, with very low risk to the general public, including the surrounding counties.
Kansas’ tuberculosis outbreak is now the largest in the U.S. since …
5 days ago · A tuberculosis outbreak that started in Wyandotte County, Kansas, has grown to be one of the largest in the U.S. since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started tracking the illness ...
Kansas Is Dealing With Major Tuberculosis Outbreak
3 days ago · As of Friday, the most recent day that data was available from health officials, 67 people were being treated for active cases of tuberculosis as part of the outbreak in Kansas.
Kansas tuberculosis outbreak largest recorded in US history | Kansas …
4 days ago · The Wyandotte County Public Health Department building is seen on Wednesday in Kansas City, Kansas. ... “The current Kansas City, Kan. Metro tuberculosis outbreak is the largest documented ...
Kansas: TB Outbreak Is Largest in History. CDC: No It’s Not.
5 days ago · "Currently, Kansas has the largest outbreak that they've ever had in history," Ashley Goss, a deputy secretary at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, told the state Senate’s Public ...
Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is largest in recorded history in U.S.
Jan 24, 2025 · Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s.