Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to one of the largest in U.S.

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 million ...

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

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

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - Wyandotte County leaders say there is no reason to panic over reports that Kansas City, Kansas, has one of the largest documented TB outbreaks since the 1950s.

Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 ...

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

YEAH, DATA COLLECTION HAS BEEN GOING ON ABOUT A YEAR. THESE ARE THE NUMBERS 67 PEOPLE WITH ACTIVE TB IN WYANDOTTE AND JOHNSON COUNTY. 60 IN WYANDOTTE COUNTY AND SEVEN IN JOHNSON COUNTY.

The state has seen tuberculosis cases double between 2023 and 2024, with the CDC offering support on the ground.

The conflicts centered around things as basic as the use of Wyandotte County office space and escalated from there. The state ultimately took over the TB response as outbreak-related numbers ...