Kansas is experiencing one of the largest recorded tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in U.S. history, as experts warn of a growing crisis in public health, worsened by recent legislative restrictions ...

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

Public health experts emphasize the importance ... from the COVID-19 pandemic that can be applied to managing the Kansas City TB outbreak. He emphasized the importance of balanced communication ...

But the relative size of the outbreak is irrelevant. Kansas numbers continue to grow, and Dr. William Schaffner, infectious ...

The director of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department is no longer ... the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming one of the largest in ...

Just as everyone living in the greater Kansas City area and beyond benefits from TB programming through local health departments, we’re also all better off when public health officials have the ...

but public health officials in Kansas won’t talk about immigration status or whatever factor connects the TB cases in the state. Though we don’t know how Kansas officials would have responded ...