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

In the last two weeks, Kansas City and the country have seen an increase in influenza cases and some other illnesses. According to the CDC, last week’s data shows clinical labs saw a 29.4% increase in ...

A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has caused dozens of illnesses and at least two ...

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

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

Virtually nothing is known about the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak. This disease surpassed COVID as the leading disease cause ...