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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...