The southwest Kansas measles outbreak continues to grow, but some counties have reached resolved status while others remain ...

Kansas added three more cases this week for a total of 83 across 11 counties in the southwestern part of the state.

Families should consider discussing with their pediatrician the option of vaccinating their young children early to protect ...

The CDC is recommending all travelers be fully vaccinated, following an outbreak linked to a flight that landed in Denver.

The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an important public health lesson.

Virtually nothing is known about the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak. This disease surpassed COVID-19 as the leading disease cause of death in the world.

Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak grew to one of the largest in U.S. history. The county's health director is no longer with the agency as of ...

Correction 01/31/25, 5:30 a.m. ET: This article was updated to reflect the fact that the current TB outbreak in Kansas is not ...

After the CDC said the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak isn't the largest in documented history, KDHE clarified they meant the largest in a single year.

A CDC spokesperson said that isn't accurate, pointing to an outbreak response from 2015 to 2017 and an outbreak in 2021. Now, KDHE says the Kansas outbreak is the largest "over the span of one year." ...

In 2023, the CDC recorded 46 active TB cases in Kansas, says Bronaugh. “It’s a substantial outbreak of tuberculosis,” Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt ...