State public health officials are adding more nuance on a previous claim about an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area. Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...

Kansas has an outbreak of two diseases — measles and tuberculosis — as lawmakers loosen vaccine requirements for children. In a 103-15 vote on March 20, the Kansas House of Representatives passed Bill ...

The director of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department is no longer with the agency, a spokesperson confirmed Tuesday.

A major tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, area has officially been declared over. The outbreak, first detected in early 2024, resulted in 68 active cases, 91 latent infections, and two ...

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 ...

TOPEKA – A tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, area is officially over after no new patients have been diagnosed with the disease since April. The outbreak began in early 2024, ...

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 in ...

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 ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment clarifies that the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City is the largest in the US over a one-year period, not the largest ever recorded. The ...

There’s “not really a religious basis” for refusing a vaccine, one religious leader says Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard and Reader's ...