Elisha Caldwell had been head of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming one of the largest in recent U.S. history.

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

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 ...

The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. From David ...

Wyandotte County has been the hardest hit ... have mobilized staff and resources addressing an unprecedented tuberculosis outbreak in one of our counties. We are working collaboratively with ...

Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern part of the state, with 67 active cases since 2024, marking one of the largest outbreaks in recorded history of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

While TB cases have been rising nationally in recent years, public health officials continue to emphasize there is no threat ...

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 ...