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 ...
Virtually nothing is known about the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak. This disease surpassed COVID as the leading disease cause ...
Kansas City-area residents may be alarmed to hear that Wyandotte County is at the epicenter of the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, according to state health officials.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) says Kansas is facing the largest documented tuberculosis outbreak in American history. Nexstar’s KSNT spoke to KDHE Communications ...
"KDHE has not exercised its authority to issue legal isolation and quarantine orders in several years — other than the current tuberculosis outbreak, which, yes, we have exercised isolation ...
Health officials are raising the alarm over a large and ongoing tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas. According to data from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), the cases have ...
“Tuberculosis outbreaks are often indications of weakness ... Jill Bronaugh, communications director at the Kansas Department ...
Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...
Tuberculosis takes close, repeated contact to contract. When the cases started to spike last summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said it should be noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first began monitoring and reporting cases in 1950. An ongoing ...