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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

An outbreak of tuberculosis within Kansas City in the United States has been ongoing since Jan. 2024 and has highlighted new trends of TB in the United States. According to March 2025 U.S. Centers for ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.