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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Health officials in Johnson County provided an update Wednesday on tuberculosis cases connected to an ongoing outbreak that started in March 2024.

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

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.