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

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

Michigan has the only persisting bovine tuberculosis outbreak in wild deer anywhere in the U.S. — and it occasionally spills ...

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

that what ties the Kansas TB cases together is either homelessness, incarcerated populations or immigration status. Staffers ...

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

(KANSAS NEWS SERVICE) - The director of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department ... turmoil during the handling of the major tuberculosis outbreak, shown by emails obtained by the Kansas ...

All cases have been identified among unvaccinated school-aged children who are residents of Gaines County. HealthDay News — The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) is reporting an ...

The director of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department ... head of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming one of the largest in recent ...

KDHE also reported 67 active TB outbreak-related cases in the Kansas City metro area, with 60 in Wyandotte County and 7 in Johnson County. 2 Additionally, there have been 79 outbreak-associated ...

While TB cases have been rising nationally in recent years, public health officials continue to emphasize there is no threat ...