Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

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 Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. From David ...

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 ...

While TB cases have been rising nationally in recent years, public health officials continue to emphasize there is no threat ...

State data shows 60 of the active cases are in Wyandotte County and seven are in Johnson County. Kansas Deputy Secretary for Public Health Ashley Goss first claimed that the state’s TB outbreak ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

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 ...