2 days ago · A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, ... But a spokesperson for the CDC on Tuesday refuted that claim, noting at least two larger TB outbreaks in recent history. In one, the disease spread through Georgia homeless shelters. Public health workers identified more than 170 active TB ...

1 day 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 ...

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. history as a state ...

2 days ago · A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has caused dozens of illnesses and at least two deaths, according to the state health department. Cases related to the ...

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 ...

2 days ago · Elizabeth S. Mingioli/CDC, via Associated Press. ... Thirty-three of those cases were detected in the state’s northwest region, which includes communities in the Kansas City, Mo., region.

2 days ago · Wyandotte County contains part of Kansas City and Johnson County is just southwest of Kansas City. ... a CDC spokesperson said the outbreak is among the largest in U.S. history, but not the ...

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 outbreak, which began a year ...

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 ...

6 days ago · Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s. ... cases and 79 latent infections in the Kansas ...