An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

Sustained focus and resources aimed at helping the most socially and economically vulnerable are essential, too — as the ...

Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just ...

Kansas faces one of the largest TB outbreaks in US history. TB, an enduring pandemic, thrives in poverty-stricken areas and ...

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to use infectious disease as a reason to reduce the flow of migrants. But ...

It’s been five years since the COVID-19 lockdown, and much of what changed during the pandemic has slowly returned to the pre-2020 baseline. But some aspects of how people live, work, learn and ...

Looking to deny asylum seekers from entering the United States, the Trump administration is reportedly looking to reinstate ...

The Trump administration is planning to invoke Title 42, which labels migrants trying to enter the U.S. a public risk and was ...

The evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic – from devastation ... including syphilis, AIDS and tuberculosis. Public health programs conducted from the 1930s through the 2000s, however, failed ...

A similar resurgence is now being observed with tuberculosis in Kansas ... of defense against public health threats. During the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations like Immunize Kansas played ...