Under a new law, local health officials will have to prove “probable cause” to make someone quarantine. Orders about public ...

Getty 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 ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis within Kansas City in the United States has been ongoing since Jan. 2024 and has highlighted new trends of TB in the United States. According to March 2025 U.S. Centers for ...

A new Kansas law is making it so that health departments across the state can no longer prohibit public gatherings in the event of an infectious disease outbreak.

With three dozen confirmed cases of measles in southwest Kansas, Gov. Laura Kelly said Tuesday that it’s important for ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment and other agencies are evaluating the impact of DOGE canceling federal health grants from HHS.

Tuberculosis is a "near-perfect predator," John Green said ... as was the case for more than half of the patients in Kansas," Karen Dobos and Marcela Henao-Tamayo, microbiologists from Colorado State ...

There were nine active cases in Vanderburgh County as of Thursday, fewer than five of which involve children, according to ...

“Tuberculosis is an airborne infectious disease ... including a recent one in the Kansas City, Kansas area. The Kansas TB rate jumped 148% last year, according to the new CDC data.