Without government funding, research to fight tuberculosis would probably never have happened and countless lives would have ...

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 health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

Elisha Caldwell had been head of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming one of the largest in recent U.S. history.

The conflicts centered around things as basic as the use of Wyandotte County office space and escalated from there. The state ultimately took over the TB response as outbreak-related numbers ...

Kansas public health officials have ordered quarantines during the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak, but lawmakers are considering repealing that power.

KDHE also reported 67 active TB outbreak-related cases in the Kansas City metro area, with 60 in Wyandotte County and 7 in Johnson County. 2 Additionally, there have been 79 outbreak-associated ...

While TB cases have been rising nationally in recent years, public health officials continue to emphasize there is no threat ...

Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern ... Kansas has reported 60 active cases in Wyandotte County and seven active cases in Johnson County ...