Under a new law, local health officials will have to prove “probable cause” to make someone quarantine. Orders about public gatherings and masking will just be recommendations now.

Symptoms of measles typically began with a high fever, cough, runny nose as well as red, watery eyes. Three to five days ...

Cutting these programs now is not just shortsighted, it’s dangerous,” the director of the Kansas City Health Department said.

Murphy introduced the legislation, Senate Bill 29, that takes away local health departments’ abilities to stop public gatherings ... outbreak in southwest Kansas and a tuberculosis outbreak ...

There are a record-breaking 68 active cases of tuberculosis, according to a March 28 update from the Kansas Division of Public Health. Most of the cases (61) are in Wyandotte County, with the rest ...

Tuberculosis is a "near-perfect predator," John Green said in his book "Everything is Tuberculosis." The bacterial infection, caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, mostly affects the ...

But the development of antibiotics and public health efforts succeeded ... including a recent one in the Kansas City, Kansas area. The Kansas TB rate jumped 148% last year, according to the ...