Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now the largest in the U.S. since the 1950s
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Outside the Unified Government Public Health Department of Wyandotte County in downtown Kansas City, Kansas. Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga/Kansas News Service
The outbreak started last January. Kansas health officials say numbers are trending downward, but they still expect to find more cases.
A tuberculosis outbreak that started in Wyandotte County, Kansas, has grown to be the largest in the U.S. since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started tracking the illness in the 1950s, health officials said.