A large, ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has sickened at least 67 and caused two deaths. What to know about TB ...

Kansas health officials are tackling the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in US history, with 67 confirmed cases since the start of 2025.

A new state dashboard lets policymakers across Kansas see mortality rates, risk factors and other detailed data about cancer in their communities, and it has good news and bad news about the disease ...

After the CDC said the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak isn't the largest in documented history, KDHE clarified they meant the ...

Health officials are downplaying the TB danger, although the outbreak has continued for a full year with no end in sight.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment clarifies that the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City is the largest in the US over a one-year period, not the largest ever recorded.

"Out of the 113 patients that received the bone graph infected with TB, 53 of them cultured out M-TB," said Jill Bronaugh, a KDHE spokesperson. "The 20 patients who were treated prophylactically ...

The outbreak has killed two people since it started in January 2024, Kansas state health department spokeswoman Jill Bronaugh said. Health officials in Kansas say there is no threat to the general ...

Local news has attempted to spin this story AND provide some comfort by reminding folks that TB isn't a virus but a bacterial infection that typically results because of constant close proximity ...