Metro health departments say the outbreak has not reached the Kansas City area but say there are ways to stay safe just in ...

According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) at least 430,000 people have been hospitalized with the flu this winter. At ...

Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...

Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...

But the relative size of the outbreak is irrelevant. Kansas numbers continue to grow, and Dr. William Schaffner, infectious ...

Texas is experiencing a measles outbreak driven by unvaccinated people and the U.S. is facing a growing threat from bird flu, potentially affecting both animals and people. Former Centers for Disease ...

The current flu season is shaping up to be the worst in a decade. So far, there have been at least 29 million illnesses and ...

America's opioid crisis is showing signs of subsiding, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

Without government funding, research to fight tuberculosis would probably never have happened and countless lives would have ...

The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public faith in their work. From David ...

The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an ...

Nationally, the test positivity rate for the week ending on February 8, was 4.8 percent, according to the CDC's most recent update on its COVID Data Tracker.