Kansas public health officials have ordered quarantines during the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak, but lawmakers are considering repealing that power.
Kansas City-area residents may be alarmed to hear that Wyandotte County is at the epicenter of the largest recorded tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history, according to state health officials.
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 is experiencing one of the largest recorded tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in U.S. history, as experts warn of a growing crisis in public health, worsened by recent legislative restrictions ...
In an interview with The American Journal of Managed Care, Michael A. Bernstein, MD, stressed the need for effective ...
Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...
But the relative size of the outbreak is irrelevant. Kansas numbers continue to grow, and Dr. William Schaffner, infectious ...
The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an ...
The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. From David ...
Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...
Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to one of the largest in U.S.
GEORGIA — A yearlong tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City metropolitan area has sparked concern as cases of the highly contagious disease exceed the national level in a majority of states, ...