The Board of Ellis County Commissioners is pleased to announce Melissa Miller has been hired as the new director of the Ellis County Health Department. Miller brings twelve years of public health ...

A new state dashboard lets policymakers across Kansas see mortality rates, risk factors and other detailed data about cancer in their communities, and it has good news and bad news about the disease ...

The current tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City metro area is among the largest in U.S. history, officials say.

Local news has attempted to spin this story AND provide some comfort by reminding folks that TB isn't a virus but a bacterial infection that typically results because of constant close proximity ...

Georgia public health officials said health-care providers are required to report cases of tuberculosis, which is the focus ...

After the CDC said the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak isn't the largest in documented history, KDHE clarified they meant the ...

Health officials are downplaying the TB danger, although the outbreak has continued for a full year with no end in sight.

TB is a serious infection that if left untreated can be fatal. As of Jan. 24, at least 67 people are being treated for active ...

There is an alarming outbreak of active tuberculosis (TB) cases in the Kansas City, Kansas area. At least 69 people have been ...