The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an important public health lesson.

Kansas is experiencing one of the largest TB outbreaks on record as experts warn of a growing public health crisis, worsened by legislation limiting response.

Outside the Unified Government Public Health Department of Wyandotte County in downtown Kansas City, Kansas.

Kansas is currently experiencing a large tuberculosis outbreak, but federal health officials are countering the claim it’s a U.S. record.

State public health officials are adding more nuance on a previous claim about an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area.

A tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in the Kansas City metro area has resulted in dozens of cases and at least 2 deaths, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), demonstrating ...

Kansas’ tuberculosis outbreak highlights public health issues, in a time when Trump policies attack the poor and vaccine skepticism rises.

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.

Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to one of the largest in U.S. history. The county's health director is no longer with the agency as of ...

The outbreak poses “very low risk to the general public, including the surrounding counties,” the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said.

Kansas’ tuberculosis outbreak highlights public health issues, in a time when Trump policies attack the poor and vaccine skepticism rises.