1 day 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 ...

2 days ago · The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local health departments, have been responding to an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in the Kansas City, Kan. Metropolitan (KCK Metro) area since January 2024. ... Reassure the public that the risk of TB remains low ...

The Tuberculosis (TB) Program provides support to local public health agencies, private physicians, and health care facilities involved in the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of Tuberculosis. The Program works to prevent transmission of TB through three strategies:

4 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 ...

3 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 City Area TB Outbreak. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has been working with local health departments in response to a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak.

5 days ago · The outbreak started last January. Kansas health officials say numbers are trending downward, but they still expect to find more cases. 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 ...

4 days ago · In a budget presentation to the Kansas Legislature on Jan. 14, Ashley Goss, the state’s deputy secretary for public health, said that the people who were getting treated for tuberculosis ...

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.

Jan 26, 2025 · The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reports 66 active cases of tuberculosis and 79 infections in the Kansas City Metro area in 2024. As of this month, the number of active cases rose ...