Virtually nothing is known about the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak. This disease surpassed COVID as the leading disease cause ...

But the relative size of the outbreak is irrelevant. Kansas numbers continue to grow, and Dr. William Schaffner, infectious ...

The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. From David ...

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

The Kansas City TB outbreak has 67 active cases, with 35 cured and 30 under treatment, and two deaths reported. TB cases have risen nationally and globally, with the US reporting the highest ...

Tuberculosis takes close, repeated contact to contract. When the cases started to spike last summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Kansas Department of Health and ...

"KDHE has not exercised its authority to issue legal isolation and quarantine orders in several years — other than the current tuberculosis outbreak, which, yes, we have exercised isolation ...

“Tuberculosis outbreaks are often indications ... Jill Bronaugh, communications director at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment told me by email: “The Kansas Department of Health ...

and 79 latent TB cases, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. While New Jersey’s TB cases for 2024 are not yet available, the outbreak has people concerned this 20th ...

the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has been responding to an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak that began in January 2024. Data derived from the Kansas Department of Health and ...