Jan 31, 2025 · There are 79 confirmed latent TB cases, including 77 in Wyandotte County and two (2) in Johnson County, associated with this outbreak. As reference, for Kansas, CDC reported 52 active TB cases in 2022 and 46 in 2023.

Jan 29, 2025 · As of Jan. 24, 67 people are being treated for active TB, most of them in Wyandotte County, Bronaugh said. Another 79 have latent TB. The state’s provisional 2024 count shows 79 active TB cases and 213 latent cases in the two counties where the outbreak is happening, Wyandotte and Johnson.

Jan 27, 2025 · There are 79 confirmed latent TB cases, which include 77 in Wyandotte County and two in Johnson County. Cases related to the outbreak were first reported in January 2024.

To date, most TB cases have been in Wyandotte County, with very low risk to the general public, including the surrounding counties.

Jan 27, 2025 · The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has reported 67 active cases since 2024, with 60 in Wyandotte County and 7 in Johnson County. Additionally, 79 latent infections—77 in...

Jan 27, 2025 · Currently, there are 67 people being treated for TB cases on the Kansas side of the Kansas City area — 60 in Wyandotte County and seven others in Johnson County. There are also 79...

Jan 28, 2025 · 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....

Aug 31, 2023 · An MDR TB outbreak involving 13 persons with active disease and nine with latent TB infections was identified within four Kansas households in 2021 and included multiple U.S.-born children who became infected in Kansas.

Jan 27, 2025 · Data on the outbreak from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) show that 67 active TB cases and 79 latent cases have been reported since the beginning of 2024 in Wyandotte and Johnson counties, which are part of the greater Kansas City area. Most of the cases have been in Wyandotte County.

Jan 28, 2025 · Elizabeth S. Mingioli/CDC, via Associated Press ... 67 people were being treated for active cases of tuberculosis as part of the outbreak in Kansas. There were 60 cases in Wyandotte County and ...