Sedgwick County offered people a chance to get a no-cost measles vaccine, also known as the MMR vaccine, at a clinic Saturday ...

Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death around the world, outpaced only by COVID-19 during the first three ...

Outbreaks in several states have contributed to recent TB trends, including a recent one in the Kansas City, Kansas area. The ...

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.

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties and continues as of early March ...

UMATILLA COUNTY — Umatilla County has an outbreak of whooping cough. “We are aware of eight cases — eight individuals who have tested positive for pertussis in the last 20 days,” Umatilla ...

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. — Prince George’s County is taking extra steps to safeguard its students after two children — one at CMIT North Elementary School and one at John Bayne Elementary ...

The Humane Society of Harford County has temporarily paused all dog ... is testing its animals and sanitizing its facilities to contain the outbreak. The outbreak comes after the humane society ...

A positive case of measles was confirmed in a Howard County resident who recently traveled ... said this case is not associated with a measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico.

could come sooner than expected.The proposed location, near the Kansas Speedway off Village West Parkway, took a step forward after the Wyandotte County-Kansas City, Kan., Unified Government's ...

With one of the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in US history, Kansas has more to worry about than its recent Super Bowl defeat. During the past year, 67 people with TB have been detected.

Credit: Getty Images To date, 147 people have been reportedly diagnosed with TB in the Kansas City outbreak, with 67 becoming ill. Reports of TB date back to around 410-400 BCE, when the physician ...