2 days ago · Kansas health officials called the outbreak “the largest documented outbreak in U.S. history” since the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began counting cases in the 1950s. But a spokesperson for the CDC on Tuesday refuted that claim, noting at least two larger TB outbreaks in recent history.

2 days ago · So far, there have been 67 confirmed cases of active TB related to the outbreak. Kansas is facing one of the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history, according to local health ...

1 day 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 latent TB.

2 days ago · Cases related to the outbreak were first reported in January 2024, and there were two reported TB deaths last year associated with this outbreak, Jill Bronaugh, a spokesperson for the Kansas ...

3 days ago · An outbreak of tuberculosis in Kansas has become the largest recorded outbreak of the illness in the U.S., with nearly 70 active cases since last year. A doctor examines the x-rays of a ...

2 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.

3 days ago · An outbreak in 2015-17 detected more than 170 cases of tuberculosis disease and over 400 cases of inactive tuberculosis across homeless shelters in Georgia. In 2021, a nationwide outbreak of tuberculosis disease involving 113 patients occurred after surgical implantation of contaminated bone allografts.

2 days ago · A tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has become the largest documented on record in the United States. As of Jan. 24, 2025, there have been 67 active cases reported in Wyandotte County ...

3 days ago · “The current Kansas City, Kan. Metro tuberculosis outbreak is the largest documented outbreak in U.S. history, presently (since the 1950s, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

4 days ago · So far, 67 active TB infections tied to the outbreak have been reported in the Kansas City area as of Jan. 24, with cases related to the current outbreak first reported in January 2024, Bronaugh ...