2 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. …

2 days ago · How big is the tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas? As of Jan. 24, 67 people are being treated for active TB, most of them in Wyandotte County, Bronaugh said. Another 79 have …

16 hours ago · A Centers for Disease Control spokesperson told Newsweek: "The ongoing tuberculosis (TB) disease outbreak in Kansas is not the largest outbreak in U.S. history," …

2 days ago · Last year, the U.S. saw more than 8,700 cases of TB, according to CDC data. Although TB cases have been steadily declining since the mid 1990s, rates increased in 2021, …

Aug 31, 2023 · An MDR TB outbreak involving 13 persons with active disease and nine with latent TB infections was identified within four Kansas households in 2021 and included multiple U.S. …

2 days ago · The number of tuberculosis cases linked to an outbreak in the Kansas City area continues to swell, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The …

4 days ago · While cases of TB have been on the rise, Kansas health officials said the threat to the general public remains “very low.” . According to the CDC, anyone can contract …

2 days ago · Kansas is not the only state in the region dealing with tuberculosis. In Missouri, its neighbor to the east, 87 cases of the disease had been recorded from Jan. 1 through …

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.

4 days ago · 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 …