After the CDC said the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak isn't the largest in documented history, KDHE clarified they meant the ...

A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has caused dozens of illnesses and at least two ...

In late January 2025, news outlets reported on an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in the Kansas City, Kansas, area. According to several of these reports, and posts sharing the news on social media, the ...

Health officials in Kansas say the risk to people living in surrounding counties and to the general public is "very low," and that the department is following guidance from the CDC. TB is a disease ...

Is Kansas TB Outbreak a Record? Editor’s note: U.S. News has updated this story due to information provided by the CDC. Read on for more detail. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is ...

spokesperson for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, told VERIFY. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began monitoring TB cases in the U.S. in the 1950s. As of Jan ...

Editor’s note: U.S. News has updated this story due to information provided by the CDC. Read on for more detail. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is countering a claim by Kansas health ...

An unprecedented tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas has reached historic levels, becoming one of the largest ever recorded in U.S. history. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has ...

A CDC spokesperson said that isn't accurate ... Kansas public health officials now say an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, area is the largest in a single year in recorded ...