Tuberculosis

KANSAS (KSNT) – The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says Kansas is facing the largest documented tuberculosis outbreak in history.

Health officials in Kansas are describing a Tuberculosis outbreak as "unprecedented".The outbreak, centered around two counties in the Kansas City metro ...

The Immigration Services Agency has announced that a Tuberculosis (TB) screening certificate will become mandatory for certain visa applications.

According to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, 67 active TB cases and 79 latent cases have been reported since the beginning of 2024 in ...

Health officials say people would need to have prolonged contact with an infected person to contract tuberculosis and want to assure Americans that TB is ...

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in U.S. history. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has been tracking this ...

Department of health reports 'rapid number of cases in a short amount of time' and says that there could be more.

The outbreak started last January. Kansas health officials say numbers are trending downward, but they still expect to find more cases.

Although tuberculosis cases have been rising, public health departments say they lack the resources to stop the disease from spreading (Courtesy of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases). TOPEKA —The current Kansas City, Kansas metro ...

Additionally, there are 79 confirmed latent TB cases, including 77 in Wyandotte County and two in Johnson County. Wyandotte County contains part of Kansas City ...

Two TB deaths in 2024 have been associated with the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak, health officials said. Published 25 mins ago • Updated 20 mins ago.

Latent TB infection: The bacteria are inactive and cause no symptoms. · TB disease: This form is contagious and can cause symptoms such as a persistent cough, ...

Late Monday, public health officials provided additional information on what they described as America's largest tuberculosis outbreak since monitoring ...

This is a medical illustration of drug-resistant, Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, presented in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...

The disease can spread when people breathe in TB bacteria left in the air by individuals with active TB of the lungs after they talk, sing or cough. And TB can ...

Since 2024, there have ...

A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has become the largest documented TB outbreak in the United States since monitoring ...

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.

The Clinical Practice Guidelines are the latest from the American Thoracic Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, European Respiratory Society ...

Wyandotte County and KCK are home to the largest tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history. Do residents need the vaccine to prevent infections?

State health officials said that dozens of people in the Kansas City, Kan., area have the disease, which has drawn a federal response.

Information on TB cases, symptoms, risk in Wyandotte and Johnson counties in KS, from KU Med doctor. Do I need to worry around Kansas City?

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 ...

The Kansas Department ...

Kansas is currently dealing with a tuberculosis outbreak that is unprecedented in the U.S. What we know about Delaware's infection rates, staying safe.

“We would expect to see a handful of cases every year,” said Dr. Dana Hawkinson, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Kansas Health System. But the ...

Public official says current TB outbreak is largest since the CDC began tracking in 1950.

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 ...

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However, most people should worry about respiratory viruses that tend to peak at this time of year, said Ginny Boos, director of infection prevention at Saint ...