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.

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. He started at Wyandotte County’s ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - Wyandotte County leaders say there is no reason to panic over reports that Kansas City, Kansas, has one of the largest documented TB outbreaks since the 1950s.

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

Staffers at the jail and homeless shelters in Wyandotte County, where the outbreak is centered, told me that public health ...

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

So far, officials have reported 60 active cases in Wyandotte County and 7 active cases in Johnson ... Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis ...

As of Jan. 24, there have been 67 confirmed cases of active TB including 60 in Wyandotte County and seven in Johnson County, according to the Kanas Department of Health and Environment.

that what ties the Kansas TB cases together is either homelessness, incarcerated populations or immigration status. Staffers at the jail and homeless shelters in Wyandotte County, where the ...