The breakdown includes 60 in Wyandotte County and seven in Johnson County. TB is spread through the air from one person to another and is put into the air when a person with active TB disease of ...

Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas are facing the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, according to health officials. The outbreak, as reported in a statement by the ...

it is one of the bigger TB outbreaks within a one-year period over the past several decades: Since January 2024 in Wyandotte and Johnson counties, there have been 67 cases of active TB ...

with a handful in Johnson County. Jill Bronaugh, a KDHE spokesperson, confirmed Goss's statement afterward. "The current KCK Metro TB outbreak is the largest documented outbreak in U.S. history ...

The state ultimately took over the TB response as outbreak-related numbers ballooned to 67 active cases, including 60 in Wyandotte County and seven in Johnson County. Caldwell said he would not ...