As of Jan. 31, 2025, there are 67 individuals, including 60 in Wyandotte County and seven (7) in Johnson County, associated with this outbreak. As noted in the epidemiologic curve below, most cases were diagnosed in early 2024 and throughout the summer. ... in Johnson County, associated with this outbreak. As reference, for Kansas, CDC reported ...

Jan 28, 2025 · How big is the tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas? As of Jan. 24, 67 people are being treated for active TB, most of them in Wyandotte County, Bronaugh said. Another 79 have latent TB. The state’s provisional 2024 count shows 79 active TB cases and 213 latent cases in the two counties where the outbreak is happening, Wyandotte and Johnson.

Beginning February 1, 2025, the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas, will transition all customer service inquiries for residential trash and recycling services to WM. This change will improve service efficiency, reduce delays, and provide residents with faster, more reliable assistance. ... According to the CDC, TB is a ...

Jan 28, 2025 · The National Association of County and City Health Officials has been closely monitoring news about the tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas, but concern remains that there is little information being ...

Jan 28, 2025 · Elizabeth S. Mingioli/CDC, via Associated Press ... 67 people were being treated for active cases of tuberculosis as part of the outbreak in Kansas. There were 60 cases in Wyandotte County and ...

Dec 4, 2024 · This map displays two census tract-level choropleth maps of the tobacco environment in Johnson County and Wyandotte County, Kansas. The first map displays crude prevalence of current cigarette smoking among adults …

Aug 22, 2024 · The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Thursday confirmed a tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte County, with more cases than the entire state recorded last year.

The Wyandotte County Public Health Department works to promote good health for the vibrantly diverse community of nearly 170,000 Wyandotte County residents. We do this by: Providing an array of critical clinical, community, and environmental health services and programs.

To date, most TB cases have been in Wyandotte County, with very low risk to the general public, including the surrounding counties.

Aug 31, 2023 · An MDR TB outbreak involving 13 persons with active disease and nine with latent TB infections was identified within four Kansas households in 2021 and included multiple U.S.-born children who became infected in Kansas.