KDHE spokesperson Jill Bronaugh told The Kansas City Star that the department advised against the vaccine due to the "low risk of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis), the ...

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas, area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state ...

Tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs, has long been considered rare in the U.S. Recently, the Kansas City metro area reported a spike in TB, prompting several ...

So far, 67 active TB infections have been reported in the Kansas City area as of Jan. 24, since 2024, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment‘s Division of Public Health.

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is now the "largest documented outbreak in U.S. history," health officials in Kansas said on Monday.. The Kansas Department of Health and ...

Tuberculosis in Kansas City. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that tuberculosis was responsible for 1 out of 7 deaths in North America and Europe during the 1880s.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — 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 began in the 1950s ...

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state ...

The tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas is alarming. It’s not the biggest in US history though, CDC says A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City area has taken local experts aback.

The Kansas City area is facing one of the country’s largest outbreaks of tuberculosis in recent years.. According to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, as of Jan. 24, there have ...