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 ...

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

Wyandotte County’s public health officer ... partners that we can effectively respond to and mitigate the tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties. We will continue to collaborate ...

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.

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 ...

Headline: Red Flag Warning from THU 12:00 PM MST until THU 7:00 PM MST Bulletin: ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM CST /NOON MST/ TO 8 PM CST /7 PM MST/ THURSDAY FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE ...

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

“Tuberculosis outbreaks are often indications of weakness ... Staffers at the jail and homeless shelters in Wyandotte County, where the outbreak is centered, told me that public health officials ...