KDHE currently reports 77 TB cases in Wyandotte County. “We value the vital role our local health officials and board play as subject matter experts in protecting our community against the ...

Wyandotte County’s public health officer ... While it’s unclear whether or not bickering at the local and state level slowed TB response, it certainly made things harder.

The director of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department is no longer with the agency, a spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. It comes after turmoil during the handling of the major tuberculosis ...

The conflicts centered around things as basic as the use of Wyandotte County office space and escalated from there. The state ultimately took over the TB response as outbreak-related numbers ...

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. He started at Wyandotte County’s ...

KDHE also reported 67 active TB outbreak-related cases in the Kansas City metro area, with 60 in Wyandotte County and 7 in Johnson County. 2 Additionally, there have been 79 outbreak-associated ...

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 ...

Kansas has reported 60 active cases in Wyandotte County and seven active cases in ... deaths and 7,415 individuals exposed to TB, and public health departments treated over 2,900 people for ...

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 ...