Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just last month, two new bills were proposed that would effectively eliminate ...

TB is preventable and treatable — yet Kansas has consistently refused ... and negatively impacts the residents of Wyandotte County.” This outbreak isn’t happening in isolation.

According to the latest data from the Kansas Department of Health, so far this year there have been a total of 9 active tuberculosis cases and 48 latent cases in the state.

The majority of the cases were in Wyandotte County, which is an urban ... She actually first broke the story that Kansas was even having a TB outbreak. As of last Friday, Kansas has seen 68 ...