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

A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has become the largest documented TB outbreak in the United States since monitoring began in the 1950s, according to the state health department.

Dozens of active and latent TB cases have been linked to the outbreak dating back to last year, local health officials say.