The director of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department ... head of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming one of the largest in recent ...
Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just ...
An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...
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.