Under a new law, local health officials will have to prove “probable cause” to make someone quarantine. Orders about public ...

There were nine active cases in Vanderburgh County as of Thursday, fewer than five of which involve children, according to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Outbreaks in several states have contributed to recent TB trends, including a recent one in the Kansas City, Kansas area. The Kansas TB rate jumped 148% last year, according to the new CDC data.

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.

as was the case for more than half of the patients in Kansas," Karen Dobos and Marcela Henao-Tamayo, microbiologists from Colorado State University, said in The Conversation. "Failure to control TB ...