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 ...

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in recorded history in the United States. "Currently, Kansas has the largest outbreak that they've ever had in history," Ashley ...

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

The outbreak started last January. Kansas health officials say numbers are trending downward, but they still expect to find more cases. This story has been updated to reflect that this is one of ...

Currently, several states have outbreaks. In Kansas City, where cases have increased 148%, two deaths have been reported ...

A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has caused dozens of illnesses and at least two deaths, according to the state health department. Cases related to the ...

Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to one of the largest in U.S. history. The county's health director is no longer with the agency as of ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says the tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte County and the Kansas City metro area is “unprecedented.” The Wyandotte County Public Health ...

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. history as a state ...

Getty Kansas has an outbreak of two diseases — measles and tuberculosis — as lawmakers loosen vaccine requirements for children. In a 103-15 vote on March 20, the Kansas House of ...

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