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Two were injured following an eight-vehicle crash on northbound Interstate 635 Saturday afternoon in Wyandotte County.The ...
The KDHE reports, as of Jan. 24, 2025, there are 67 people who have contracted active TB in both counties: 60 people in Wyandotte County; seven in Johnson County. "The current Kansas City ...
A photo of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department in Kansas City, Kansas ... or not bickering at the local and state level slowed TB response, it certainly made things harder.
The Wyandotte County Public Health Department building ... 213 latent cases and two TB deaths on the Kansas side of the metro area last year. Goss told members of the Senate Public Health and ...
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.
The director of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department is ... of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming one of the largest in recent ...
So far, officials have reported 60 active cases in Wyandotte County and 7 active ... and Prevention. Two TB-related conditions exist: inactive TB and active TB. Kansas health officials said ...
Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas ... There is also a latent form of tuberculosis, called inactive TB, that can lay dormant in a person. Such cases do not cause ...
An outbreak of tuberculosis in Kansas has become the largest recorded outbreak of the illness in the U.S., with nearly 70 active cases since last year. A doctor examines the x-rays of a ...
Wyandotte County has been the hardest hit ... This article was updated to reflect the fact that the current TB outbreak in Kansas is not the largest in U.S. record, according to the CDC.