During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kansas Legislature stripped ... to prevent the spread of tuberculosis. KDHE currently reports 77 TB cases in Wyandotte County. “We value the vital role our ...

Now, as Kansas grapples with a major tuberculosis outbreak and rising measles cases ... In a statement to The Star, Wyandotte County Administrator David Johnston criticized the law’s adoption, which ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - 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. The law ...

KANSAS CITY – Tuberculosis continues ... those active cases were in Wyandotte County. Johnson County had the second most. At least two people died last year’s outbreak, which was one of ...

Before a significant exposure at McGary Middle School in 2023, Vanderburgh County ... TB at a Joliet, Illinois, high school this week was the second in the Chicago area in April. An outbreak in ...

The cancellations represent a blow to vaccination and public health efforts in the Kansas City area – and come as Kansas grapples with a measles outbreak ... in Wyandotte County – a steep ...

The measles outbreak has grown from southwest Kansas as the Sedgwick County Health Department reports the first case in the ...

The case in Sedgwick County comes as a measles outbreak that was first detected in Western Kansas continues to spread across ...