Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years.

According to the latest data from the Kansas Department of Health, so far this year there have been a total of 9 active tuberculosis cases and 48 latent cases in the state.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A Johnson County emergency is over and the impacted road reopened. Crews spent about an hour cleaning up a hydraulic fluid from the Lamar Avenue bridge over Interstate 35 ...

Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just ...

Jack Gruber USA Today Network Kansas is facing the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the ... the outbreak have been reported in Wyandotte and Johnson counties. This isn’t just a statistic ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Kansas is facing the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the U.S. since the 1950s.