As of June 2, 2025, 83 cases of measles have been reported in Kansas, most in the southwest region of the state.

Beyond bringing back diseases like measles and TB, defunding NIH will cost the United States its leading role in global ...

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

Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. State and local health departments responsible for invisible but critical work including inspecting ...

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 ...

Erin Corriveau: Tuberculosis is something that a lot of our public health laws actually protect. And so outbreaks of TB don’t happen very commonly anymore in the United States.

The fact that health departments in Kansas and Missouri had access to these scientific breakthroughs makes TB outbreaks more manageable — stopping the outbreak well short of becoming U.S ...

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 ...

Recent TB Outbreak in Kansas City In a press release, KDHE explained that this outbreak has been ongoing since January 2024, with most patients infected in early 2024 and throughout the summer. As ...

The Kansas City, Kansas, area is currently experiencing a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak, with 2 deaths, 67 active cases, and 79 latent cases reported so far.