Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

So far, officials have reported 60 active cases in Wyandotte County and 7 active ... and Prevention. Two TB-related conditions exist: inactive TB and active TB. Kansas health officials said ...

meaning patients are asymptomatic and cannot pass TB to others. Sixty of the active infections have been identified in Wyandotte County and the other seven in Johnson County. “The current Kansas City, ...

The KDHE reports, as of Jan. 24, 2025, there are 67 people who have contracted active TB in both counties: 60 people in Wyandotte County; seven in Johnson County. "The current Kansas City ...

"Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to one of the largest in U.S.

The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. From David ...

Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 ...

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

In an interview with The American Journal of Managed Care, Michael A. Bernstein, MD, stressed the need for effective ...

The director of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department is ... of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming one of the largest in recent ...

that what ties the Kansas TB cases together is either homelessness, incarcerated populations or immigration status. Staffers at the jail and homeless shelters in Wyandotte County, where the ...