A photo of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department in ... When the outbreak reached a fever pitch last summer, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the Centers for Disease ...

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 ...

KDHE also reported 67 active TB outbreak-related cases in the Kansas City metro area, with 60 in Wyandotte County and 7 in Johnson County. 2 Additionally, there have been 79 outbreak-associated ...

There have also been 79 confirmed latent TB ... KDHE assumed responsibility for the coordination and distribution of testing, treatment and medical consultation in Wyandotte County," the agency ...

Since January 2024, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment has confirmed 67 active TB cases involved in this outbreak, including 60 in Wyandotte County and seven in neighboring Johnson ...

Health officials are raising the alarm over a large and ongoing tuberculosis (TB) outbreak ... Health and Environment (KDHE), the cases have all occurred in Wyandotte County and Johnson County ...

The Wyandotte County Public Health Department ... to the national health agency’s assertion, KDHE maintained the spate of Kansas TB infections is record-breaking — in a slightly more specific ...

Bronaugh said KDHE is currently managing 384 people “who are all at various different stages of TB testing, diagnostics, and treatment” in connection to the outbreak. State data shows 60 of the active ...

HealthDay News — Kansas health officials are tackling the largest tuberculosis (TB ... cases in Wyandotte County and seven in Johnson County, according to the Kansas Department of Health ...

77 in Wyandotte County and two in Johnson County, she said. To date, two reported TB deaths in 2024 have been associated with the current outbreak, she added. In 2024, KDHE reported a total of 79 ...

So far, officials have reported 60 active cases in Wyandotte County and 7 active cases in Johnson County, according to data from the Kansas Department of Health ... known as TB, is caused by ...