No, you probably didn’t get tuberculosis at Sunday’s Chiefs game. A yearlong outbreak of the bacterial disease in the Kansas City metropolitan area has raised concerns about spread locally and ...

In late January 2025, news outlets reported on an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in the Kansas City, Kansas, area. According to several of these reports, and posts sharing the news on social media ...

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 City area accounted for over 70% of Kansas’ 109 active tuberculosis cases in 2024. Out of those 109 cases statewide, people between the ages of 25 and 44 accounted for the most cases.

Tuberculosis cases linked to an ongoing outbreak in the Kansas City area continue to climb. The outbreak, which began a year ago, killed two people in 2024.

Jan 29 (Reuters) - An outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City area has grown into one of the largest ever recorded in the United States, with dozens of active cases of the infectious disease ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is now the "largest documented outbreak in U.S. history," Kansas health officials said Monday.. The Kansas Department ...

As of Jan. 24, 67 active cases of tuberculosis, or TB, had been reported in Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas. The outbreak began last year, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...

As of Jan. 17, Kansas health officials reported that they had documented 66 active cases and 79 latent infections in the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area since 2024.

A tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has become the largest documented on record in the United States. As of Jan. 24, 2025, there have been 67 active cases reported in Wyandotte County ...

In late January 2025, news outlets reported on an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in the Kansas City, Kansas, area. According to several of these reports, and posts sharing the news on social media ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis. [Photo: NIAID] The ongoing yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in the Kansas City, Kansas, area continues to perplex health authorities, a full year after it began.