But the relative size of the outbreak is irrelevant. Kansas numbers continue to grow, and Dr. William Schaffner, infectious ...

Virtually nothing is known about the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak. This disease surpassed COVID as the leading disease cause ...

A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has caused dozens of illnesses and at least two ...

Kansas is currently experiencing a large tuberculosis outbreak, but federal health officials are countering the claim it’s a U.S. record.

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

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear ...

27 News spoke to KDHE Communications Director Jill Bronaugh who said the agency is working with the Centers for Disease Control for guidance. As of Jan. 24, 2025, there are 67 people in Kansas ...

In Kansas, USA, public health workers are battling one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in US history. As of Jan 31, 67 patients in the Kansas City metropolitan area had active infections and 79 ...

Jill Bronaugh, the state health department’s communications director, said this is the largest tuberculosis outbreak documented in the U.S. since the ’50s. The CDC later said there have been ...

tuberculosis among those cases,” Kansas Department of Health and Environment spokeswoman Jill Bronaugh said. “Although the precise time period is not well defined,” Bronaugh said, ...