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 ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis in Kansas has infected dozens of people in the state over the past year, raising concern from health officials even as they note it is not the greatest outbreak of disease ...

The number of tuberculosis cases linked to an outbreak in the Kansas City area continues to swell, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The outbreak, which began a year ago, ...

(WXYZ) — In today’s Health Alert, the tuberculosis outbreak continues to infect dozens of people in Kansas. Two people lost their lives last year, and right now ...

Currently, Kansas is facing one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history. As of Jan. 24, 67 cases of active ...

Kansas has reported one of its largest tuberculosis outbreaks since the 1950s, beginning in Wyandotte County. But infectious disease expert Dr. Dana Hawkinson says the risk to most residents is ...

The Unified Government Public Health Department of Wyandotte County in downtown Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Thursday confirmed a tuberculosis outbreak in ...

Two Kansas counties are reporting active cases of TB in the largest reported outbreak of the respiratory disease Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in ...

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 tuberculosis ...

This story has been updated to clarify some CDC statistics. An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in the state's history, and while the risk of contracting the bacterial ...

A tuberculosis outbreak that started in Wyandotte County, Kansas, has grown to be one of the largest in the U.S. since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started tracking the illness in ...

Kansas City, Kan. (AP) - 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.