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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Kansas Department of Health ... Kansas TB cases together is either homelessness, incarcerated populations or immigration status. Staffers at the jail and homeless shelters in Wyandotte County ...

The majority of cases were declared to have broken out in Wyandotte County and Johnson ... to others. KDHE advised that local health departments were working with each TB patient to identify ...

Wyandotte County contains part of Kansas City and ... started monitoring and reporting TB cases),” KDHE said in a statement. “This outbreak is still ongoing, which means that there could ...

Additionally, there are 79 confirmed latent TB cases, including 77 in Wyandotte County and two in Johnson ... according to KDHE. So far, there have been two deaths related to the outbreak, both ...