The Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Thursday confirmed the first case of measles in the state since 2018. The ...

Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just ...

Two fired CDC workers had been deployed to Kansas City to help work on a tuberculosis outbreak. The widespread ... the National Association of City and County Health Officials.

Why doesn’t the public know more about the troubling tuberculosis outbreak in ... may be political. Wyandotte and Johnson counties, which comprise a large part of the Kansas City metropolitan ...

A Kansas tuberculosis ... describing the outbreak as “the largest in U.S. history” were quickly debunked, it is one of the bigger TB outbreaks within a one-year period over the past several decades: ...

Staffers at the jail and homeless shelters in Wyandotte County, where the outbreak ... Just a couple of years ago, there was a smaller TB outbreak in Kansas. After the outbreak was contained ...

“Tuberculosis outbreaks ... the Kansas TB cases together is either homelessness, incarcerated populations or immigration status. Staffers at the jail and homeless shelters in Wyandotte County ...