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.
A tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has killed two people and caused at least 146 to become infected with the potentially deadly respiratory disease during one of the largest outbreaks in the nation's history.
A CDC spokesperson identified two outbreaks in the last decade linked to more tuberculosis cases than the ongoing outbreak centered in Wyandotte County.
Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 confirmed latent cases.
Kansas is facing the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, according to local health officials.
State health officials said that dozens of people in the Kansas City, Kan., area have the disease, which has drawn a federal response.
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.
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.
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.
Kansas health officials are dealing with one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in US History
More than 60 people were being treated in the Kansas City area as of Friday, according to the state health department.