Common symptoms of active TB include coughing, chest pains, fever, fatigue and coughing up blood or phlegm. The airborne respiratory illness is usually transmitted during prolonged close contact with an infected person.

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is now the "largest documented outbreak in U.S. history," Kansas health officials said Monday.

Kansas is facing the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, according to local health officials.

The Kansas City metro area is experiencing the largest outbreak in U.S. history, with low risk to the general public, Kansas health officials say.

Larry Gunzenhauser, 32, allegedly shot 37-year-old Jentre DeMarkus Parker-White during an altercation at a construction site off Shawnee Mission Parkway in Merriam in November.

A tuberculosis outbreak that started in Wyandotte County has grown to be the largest in the U.S. since the CDC started tracking the illness in the 1950s, health officials said.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says there is a very low risk to the public of contracting Tuberculosis.

There is a broken down vehicle on K-10 from South Cedar Creek Parkway to K-7. The warning was released on Wednesday at 10:31 p.m., and the latest update regarding this incident was made available on Wednesday at 10:38 p.m. There were no traffic incidents reported in this area for the past 12 hours.

An outbreak of the infectious lung disease TB in Kansas is one of the largest ever recorded in the US. As of January 24, Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas had reported 67 active cases of TB. The US outbreak began in 2024,

News of a Kansas tuberculosis outbreak centered in Wyandotte and Johnson County comes as likely tens of thousands of fans from the region are about to head to the Super Bowl which will be played indoors at New Orleans Caesars Superdome.

Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the individuals selected for the Measure P Citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee (CBOC). Nine applied to be on the CBOC and the SBCC Board of Trustees approved all applicants to serve.