A new plan to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries on Wyandotte County roadways is set to go into effect on the Kansas side of the metro.

The Johnson County Department of Health and Environment (JCDHE) says all TB patients in the county have completed treatment and are not infectious

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

State health officials said that dozens of people in the Kansas City, Kan., area have the disease, which has drawn a federal response.

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state health official claimed last week.

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

A Kansas Department of Health and Environment official told a Kansas Senate committee Tuesday the agency continues to work to resolve an "unprecedented" tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte County.

Late Monday, public health officials provided additional information on what they described as America's largest tuberculosis outbreak since monitoring began in the 1950s.

A CDC spokesperson identified two outbreaks in the last decade linked to more tuberculosis cases than the ongoing outbreak centered in Wyandotte County.

In a state Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare meeting, Ashley Goss, a deputy secretary for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, told committee members the outbreak is

“While TB cases in Wyandotte and Johnson counties are getting attention, we want to assure our residents that what we’re seeing in Saline County is normal,” said Jason Tiller, Saline County Health Officer. “There is no immediate reason for concern. TB is preventable, treatable, and does not pose a general risk to the public.”