State health officials in Kansas have issued a warning to healthcare providers this week as measles cases climb across the ...

Kansas is "below the herd immunity threshold" for measles, as measured by KDHE's estimated MMR immunization rates for kindergarten students.

A measles outbreak in Texas has grown to 159 cases, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is now on the ground in that state to respond. The agency posted on X that it's ...

Metro health departments say the outbreak has not reached the Kansas City area but say there are ways to stay safe just in ...

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

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

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.

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

Why doesn’t the public know more about the troubling tuberculosis outbreak in eastern Kansas? The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) is tracking 384 individuals with suspected ...