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

Elisha Caldwell had been head of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming one of the largest in recent U.S. history.

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

Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern part of the state, with 67 active cases since 2024, marking one of the largest outbreaks in recorded history of the ...

While TB cases have been rising nationally in recent years, public health officials continue to emphasize there is no threat ...

State data shows 60 of the active cases are in Wyandotte County and seven are in Johnson County. Kansas Deputy Secretary for Public Health Ashley Goss first claimed that the state’s TB outbreak ...

The 2021 outbreak of TB disease was nationwide and involved ... treatment and medical consultation in Wyandotte County," the agency said. "Four CDC staff are providing on-site assistance including ...

Kansas public health officials have ordered quarantines during the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak, but lawmakers are considering repealing that power.

There are currently 67 active tuberculosis cases in a two-county area of Kansas ... there has been a total of 79 active TB cases and 213 latent cases in Wyandotte and Johnson counties, according ...