No, you probably didn’t get tuberculosis at Sunday’s Chiefs game. A yearlong outbreak of the bacterial disease in the Kansas City metropolitan area has raised concerns about spread locally and ...

What To Know About Kansas City Tuberculosis Outbreak Officials Called 'Unprecedented' In the last 12 months, 67 active cases of TB had been reported in the Kansas City, Kansas, area.

Tuberculosis cases linked to an ongoing outbreak in the Kansas City area continue to climb. The outbreak, which began a year ago, killed two people in 2024.

KDHE spokesperson Jill Bronaugh told The Kansas City Star that the department advised against the vaccine due to the "low risk of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis), the ...

Major Tuberculosis Outbreak Hits Kansas City Area. More. Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A sample that tested positive for tuberculosis is seen from a microscope in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 29, 2019.

Major tuberculosis outbreak hits Kansas City area. By Hannah Lang. January 29, 2025 9:43 PM UTC Updated January 30, 2025. A sample that tested positive for tuberculosis is seen from ...

The Kansas City, Missouri, Health Department announced on Friday, Jan. 31, that the metro continues to maintain low numbers ...

A tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has become the largest documented on record in the United States. As of Jan. 24, 2025, there have been 67 active cases reported in Wyandotte County ...

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.

A deadly tuberculosis outbreak is spreading through Kansas City, leaving health officials racing to contain what could become one of the region’s most serious public health crises in recent years.

The tuberculosis vaccine is not required in Kansas for students in kindergarten through 12th grade, according to KDHE. People who are immunocompromised should also not receive the vaccine, the CDC ...