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.

In the beginning, CDC and KDHE staff were temporarily housed at the Wyandotte County Public Health Department. On Aug. 15, Caldwell sent an email to Lauren Swensson, the state’s TB controller ...

Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas are facing the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, according to health officials. The outbreak, as reported in a statement by the ...

(KCTV) - Wyandotte County ... the largest documented TB outbreaks since the 1950s. In a statement released Tuesday, Mayor Tyrone Garner said the Kansas Department of Health and Environment is ...

The Kansas Department of Health ... reporting TB cases in 1950. Currently, there are 67 people being treated for TB cases on the Kansas side of the Kansas City area — 60 in Wyandotte County ...

A spokesperson for the Wyandotte County Health Department referred questions to KDHE. According to the World Health Organization, an estimated nine million people get TB every year and 1.25 ...