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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Kansas has reported 60 active cases in Wyandotte County and seven active cases in ... tuberculosis deaths and 7,415 individuals exposed to TB, and public health departments treated over 2,900 ...

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 ...