The county fell under national observation last year and into 2025 after Wyandotte and Johnson Counties became the epicenter of a major tuberculosis outbreak. Elisha Caldwell, the former health ...

(KANSAS NEWS SERVICE) - The director of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department ... turmoil during the handling of the major tuberculosis outbreak, shown by emails obtained by the Kansas ...

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 ...

KDHE also reported 67 active TB outbreak-related cases in the Kansas City metro area, with 60 in Wyandotte County and 7 in Johnson County. 2 Additionally, there have been 79 outbreak-associated ...

Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern ... Kansas has reported 60 active cases in Wyandotte County and seven active cases in Johnson County, according ...

The 2021 outbreak of TB disease was nationwide and involved ... treatment and medical consultation in Wyandotte County," the agency said. "Four CDC staff are providing on-site assistance including ...

Since January 2024, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment has confirmed 67 active TB cases involved in this outbreak, including 60 in Wyandotte County and seven in neighboring Johnson ...

(AP) - A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City ... most of them in Wyandotte County, Bronaugh said. Another 79 have latent TB. The state’s provisional 2024 count shows 79 active ...

The outbreak includes 60 active cases in Wyandotte County and seven ... especially in Wyandotte or Johnson County, consider getting tested for TB if you are at risk or have symptoms.