State public health officials are adding more nuance on a previous claim about an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area. Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...

Kansas is experiencing one of the largest recorded tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in U.S. history, as experts warn of a growing ...

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 tuberculosis, but those ...

A tuberculosis outbreak that started ... the social determinants of health and their connection to public policy. Kansas News Service stories and photos may be republished by news media at no ...

Now, as Kansas grapples with a major tuberculosis outbreak ... before issuing health directives. Local health authorities currently empowered to limit public gatherings by order will only be ...

Just as everyone living in the greater Kansas City area and beyond benefits from TB programming through local health departments, we’re also all better off when public health officials have the ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says the tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte County and the Kansas City metro area is “unprecedented.” The Wyandotte County Public Health ...

but public health officials in Kansas won’t talk about immigration status or whatever factor connects the TB cases in the state. Though we don’t know how Kansas officials would have responded ...

Health officials have confirmed almost 50 cases of tuberculosis in Wyandotte County, more than in all of Kansas last year. But the public risk remains low. The Kansas Department of Health and ...

told the Kansas Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare on Jan. 21. TB is an infectious disease that most often affects the lungs and is caused by a type of bacteria. It spreads through the ...

Health officials have said the risk to the public is low from the current tuberculosis, or TB, outbreak among dozens of people in eastern Kansas. However, most people should worry about ...