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(KCTV) - Wyandotte County leaders say there is no reason to panic over reports that Kansas City, Kansas, has one of the ...
An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in ... Most of the cases have been in Wyandotte County, with a handful in Johnson County. Jill Bronaugh, a KDHE spokesperson ...
Under a new law, local health officials will have to prove “probable cause” to make someone quarantine. Orders about public ...
A yearlong outbreak ... to have TB, but only about 5% to 10% of those develop symptoms. As of Jan. 24, 67 people are being treated for active TB, most of them in Wyandotte County, Bronaugh said.
Getty Kansas has an outbreak of two diseases — measles and tuberculosis — as lawmakers ... Most of the cases (61) are in Wyandotte County, with the rest in Johnson. There are 85 latent cases ...
TB is preventable and treatable — yet Kansas has consistently refused ... and negatively impacts the residents of Wyandotte County.” This outbreak isn’t happening in isolation.
The new case is in Stevens County in southwest Kansas. It’s unclear if it is connected to outbreaks in New Mexico and Texas. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Thursday confirmed ...