An outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City area has grown into one of the largest ever recorded in the United States, with dozens of active cases of the infectious disease reported, according to health officials.

No, you probably didn’t get tuberculosis at Sunday’s Chiefs game. A yearlong outbreak of the bacterial infection in the Kansas City metropolitan area has raised concerns about spread locally and nationally.

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.

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

State and local public health officials in Kansas are responding to a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in the Kansas City area, where approximately 70 patients are being treated for active disease, according to a press release from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s (KDHE’s) Division of Public Health.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says Kansas is facing the largest documented tuberculosis outbreak in history. 27 News spoke to KDHE Communications Director Jill Bronaugh who said the agency is working with the Centers for Disease Control for guidance.

A tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City has become one of the largest recorded in the U.S. With 67 active cases and 79 latent infections since 2024, health officials are racing to contain the disease.

The United States is experiencing one of its largest outbreaks of tuberculosis since the CDC began reporting in the 1950s.

A tuberculosis outbreak that began a year ago in two counties in the Kansas City, Kan., area has caused 67 active cases and 79 latent cases of the disease. Two deaths have been reported. But public health officials say the risk to the public remains low.

You don’t need to have the vaccine to attend colleges in Kansas, but some do require you to get tested for tuberculosis before enrolling and going to classes on campus, like at the University of Kansas.

Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 confirmed latent cases.