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

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

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

Michael A. Bernstein, MD, Stamford Health, addresses common misconceptions about tuberculosis amid the outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas City, Kansas, area is currently experiencing a ...

The Kansas City TB outbreak has 67 active cases ... effective communication and proactive screening to curb the recent tuberculosis (TB) outbreak. In a press release, KDHE explained that this ...

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 ...

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 ...

is tracking 384 individuals with suspected tuberculosis in the Kansas City metro area — at least 67 have an active infection, and two have died. While Kansas public health officials called it ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) - The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services is sharing an update to Tuberculosis cases in Nebraska, and an outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas. In a release sent Friday ...

The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. From David ...