By james art 
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Take a look at the rich history of the Waverly Hills Sanatorium, from his early days as a Tuberculosis Treatment Center to his current status as one of the most beloved spots in America.
The continuing epidemic of tuberculosis in Kansas has become the largest in the history of the United States.
“Currently, Kansas has the largest outbreak that has ever been in history,” Ashley Gos, Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Health and Environment of Kansas, before the Committee on Public Health and Social Care of the Senate on Tuesday.
As of January 17, public health staff announced that they had documented 66 active cases and 79 latent infections in the Kansas City subway, Kansas, since 2024. Most of the cases are in Wianndot County, with a handful in Johnson County.
Jill Bronau, a Kdhe spokesman, confirmed Goss’s statement afterwards.
“The current KKK Metro TB epidemic is the largest documented epidemic in the history of the United States at the moment,” Bronau said in a statement about The Capital-Journal. “This is mainly due to the quick number of cases in a short time. This hearth is still ongoing, which means that there may be more cases. There are several other countries that currently have large outbreaks, which also continue. “
She noted that the centers for the control and prevention of diseases began to monitor and report cases of tuberculosis in the United States in the 1950s.
Tuberculosis is caused by a bacterium that usually affects the lungs, according to KDHE. People with active infection feel sick and can spread it to others until people with latent infection feel sick and cannot spread it. Tuberculosis is transmitted from person to person by air when a person with an active infection cough, speaks or sings. It is treated with antibiotics.
Public health staff say that there is a “very low risk to the general public.”
The reported KDHE statistics on infectious diseases show that there were 51 active cases across the country in 2023. This jumped until 109 in 2024. So far, there has been one in 2025.
“Some of you know that we are and we have still mobilized staff and resources to deal with an unprecedented tuberculosis epidemic in one of our counties,” Goss told MPs. “We work with CDC on the subject. CDC stays with us to support us. This is not negative. This is normal when there is something unprecedented or a large epidemic of all kinds, they will come and give us resources to help stop this, we are currently moving in the right direction. “
Goss said that when Kdhe joined the Kansas City epidemic last summer, there were 65 active cases and approximately the same number of latent cases. She said their number had already decreased to about 32 active cases.
In active patients, after 10 days of medication and three phlegm tests, they will usually no longer be able to transmit tuberculosis.
“They are no longer contagious,” Goss said. “They can live their lives, they do not have to stay away from people and can return to work, do things as long as they continue to take their medicines.”
The course of treatment is several months for active and latent cases.
“We still have some pretty big employers who are involved and with whom we work on it,” Goss said. “So we expect to find more, but we hope that the more we find, latent tuberculosis is not active, so that their lives are not disturbed and do not have to stay home from work.
“Because it is highly infected. This is a respiratory virus. “
Jason Alatid is a Statehouse reporter for The Topeka Capital-Journal. You can find it by email at [email protected]. Follow it on x @Jason_alatiddS