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

Kansas City-area residents may be alarmed to hear that Wyandotte County is at the epicenter of the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, according to state health officials.

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

WYANDOTTE COUNTY, Kan. — Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas are facing the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, according to health officials. The outbreak, as reported ...

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

60 people in Wyandotte County; seven in Johnson County. "The current Kansas City, Kan. Metro tuberculosis outbreak is the largest documented outbreak in U.S. history, presently (since the 1950's ...

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

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.

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

Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern ... So far, officials have reported 60 active cases in Wyandotte County and 7 active cases in Johnson County ...

The director of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department ... head of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming one of the largest in recent ...

Kansas City-area residents may be alarmed to hear that Wyandotte County is at the epicenter of the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, according to state health officials.