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

TB is preventable and treatable — yet ... This harms our county government and negatively impacts the residents of Wyandotte County.” This outbreak isn’t happening in isolation.

A Wyandotte County judge ordered a man to serve two life sentences without the chance for parole Thursday for the killing of two sheriff’s deputies during a jail transfer. The sentencing comes ...

Slashing tuberculosis aid could endanger millions of lives abroad, health authorities say, with potential consequences for ...

With one of the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in US history, Kansas has more to worry about than its recent Super Bowl ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB—a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough—began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties and continues as of early ...

A deceased man in a New Mexico county experiencing a small measles outbreak and bordering Texas—where an outbreak of the highly contagious virus in has grown to 159 people—tested positive for ...

“It is not normal to see an outbreak like this in the United States,” Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said. “The City of Houston is aware of its circumstances. We’ve reached out to all of ...

These guidelines are now being used to fight the current Kansas TB outbreak. And even better cures are on the horizon, Nahid says. The pipeline for experimental drugs is larger than ever and features ...

MORE: Kansas faces one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in US history According to the WHO, these cuts could affect TB response efforts in at least 18 countries, and where it says 89% of ...