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

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

But the relative size of the outbreak is irrelevant. Kansas numbers continue to grow, and Dr. William Schaffner, infectious ...

Why doesn’t the public know more about the troubling tuberculosis outbreak in eastern Kansas? The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) is tracking 384 individuals with suspected ...

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City metropolitan area straddling Kansas and Missouri has made headlines across the country, a rare feat for an infectious disease too often ignored ...

state and federal public health officials have been tracking one of the nation’s largest outbreaks of tuberculosis in decades. So far, 67 communicable active cases of the world’s deadliest airborne ...

Kansas is dealing with the largest TB outbreak in modern U.S. history. Here's what to know about tuberculosis testing and cases in Tennessee in 2025.

Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...

Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to one of the largest in U.S. history. The county's health director is no longer with the agency as of ...

As Kansas is in the midst of an unprecedented tuberculosis outbreak, state lawmakers are considering eliminating the quarantine power of public health officials. The Senate health committee last ...

Since January 2024, dozens of tuberculosis cases have been found around Kansas City. TB may seem like a disease of the ...

You may have seen reports of an outbreak of tuberculosis in Kansas City and thought: Oh, no! Is this the start of something bigger? Do you need to worry? First, the facts: The tuberculosis ...