Jan 28, 2025 · 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 health official claimed last week.

Jan 28, 2025 · Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 confirmed latent cases.

Feb 6, 2025 · There is an ongoing outbreak of tuberculosis in two counties in Kansas. As of January 31, 67 cases of active TB and two deaths had been counted across these two counties, making it one of the largest outbreaks of tuberculosis in the United States in the past 30–40 years.

As of Jan. 31, 2025, there are 67 confirmed cases of active tuberculosis (TB) disease, including 60 in Wyandotte County and seven (7) in Johnson County, associated with this outbreak. Of these individuals, 35 have completed treatment and are considered cured and …

Feb 5, 2025 · Since January 2024, there has been an ongoing tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas. While the outbreak is larger than normal, the risk remains low for the public. As of January 31, 2025, there were 67 confirmed cases of active TB disease.

4 days ago · An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties and continues as of early March 2025. To date, 147 people have been reportedly diagnosed with TB in the outbreak, with 67 becoming ill.

Jan 28, 2025 · Health officials in Kansas are responding to a tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte and Johnson counties. A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has caused dozens...

4 days ago · They noted that 37 to 43 TB cases were reported annually in Kansas from 2019 through 2021. That number rose to 52 cases in 2022, driven in part by the MDR-TB outbreak. The outbreak comes amid rising TB incidence in the United States. According to CDC data, 9,633 TB cases were reported in the United States in 2023 —the highest case count since ...

Aug 22, 2024 · The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Thursday confirmed a tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte County, with more cases than the entire state recorded last year.

Jan 28, 2025 · Kansas is grappling with what state health officials say is one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks there since the 1950s, one that has infected dozens of people.