An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City metropolitan area straddling Kansas and Missouri has made headlines across the country, a rare feat for an infectious disease too often ignored in ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis within Kansas City in the United States has been ongoing since Jan. 2024 and has highlighted new trends of TB in the United States. According to March 2025 U.S. Centers for ...

TOPEKA – A tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, area is officially over after no new patients have been diagnosed with the disease since April. The outbreak began in early 2024, ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in the last several decades was declared over Friday by Kansas health officials. Since early 2024, 159 patients had tested positive for ...

A major tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, area has officially been declared over. The outbreak, first detected in early 2024, resulted in 68 active cases, 91 latent infections, and two ...

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas is alarming health officials and the general public, and you might be wondering how your workforce could be impacted or how you should respond. We’ll explain ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - As a year-long tuberculosis outbreak baffles health experts in Kansas City, Kansas, those on the other side of the border remain untouched. The Kansas City, Missouri, Health ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Health Department said on Friday that Kansas City, Missouri continues to maintain low tuberculosis case numbers with no signs of an active outbreak. The health ...

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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) announced today the official end of the tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas. No new patients have been ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) - The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services is sharing an update to Tuberculosis cases in Nebraska, and an outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas. In a release sent Friday, ...

Why doesn’t the public know more about the troubling tuberculosis outbreak in eastern Kansas? The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) is tracking 384 individuals with suspected ...