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.

Johnson County, Kansas, firefighters responded to an early house fire that turned deadly Monday morning. Firefighters received a call around 4:50 a.m. about a house fire with a person still inside in the 33600 block of West 167th Street just outside of Gardner, Kansas.

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.

The outbreak poses “very low risk to the general public, including the surrounding counties,” the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said.

Kansas is experiencing record-high tuberculosis cases in two counties. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment and a TB expert weigh in on the public risk.

Again, in this report the newspaper attempts to spin & downplay the public health threat . . .

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.