An outbreak of tuberculosis within Kansas City in the United States has been ongoing since Jan. 2024 and has highlighted new trends of TB in the United States. According to March 2025 U.S. Centers for ...

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.

Getty Kansas has an outbreak of two diseases — measles and tuberculosis — as lawmakers loosen vaccine requirements for children. In a 103-15 vote on March 20, the Kansas House of ...

Now, as Kansas grapples with a major tuberculosis outbreak and rising measles cases, a new law is further restricting health authorities’ ability to impose orders that can slow the spread of ...

Kansas is dealing with a double outbreak of tuberculosis and measles Religious exception for vaccination will be allowed in child care facilities Measles cases in Kansas doubled this week, mostly ...

A new Kansas law is making it so that health departments across the state can no longer prohibit public gatherings in the event of an infectious disease outbreak.

The representative said the timing is “terrible” with a measles outbreak in southwest Kansas and a tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte County. “This seems like a very bad time to be doing this.