Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...

“EIS [Epidemiology Intelligence Service] officers step up at a moment’s notice to investigate public health threats in the ...

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

Jill Bronaugh, communications director at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment told me by email: “The Kansas ...

Indeed, the pathogen seems like ancient history — but as recent developments indicate, tuberculosis isn’t done with us yet.

Without government funding, research to fight tuberculosis would probably never have happened and countless lives would have ...

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

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

Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

"Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

Sixty-seven cases and two deaths have been reported in an ongoing Kansas TB outbreak. Officials initially said it is the largest outbreak in U.S. history but clarified it is the largest over the ...