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Kansas rolls back public health officials’ authority amid TB, measles outbreaks
Under a new law, local health officials will have to prove “probable cause” to make someone quarantine. Orders about public ...
Missouri’s public health efforts left reeling after feds abruptly rescind funding
The federal government is clawing back hundreds of millions of dollars that were supposed to go to public health departments ...
Kansas Has a Double Outbreak of Measles and Tuberculosis. Meanwhile, State Lawmakers Are Dropping Vaccine Requirements
Kansas has an outbreak of two diseases — measles and tuberculosis — as lawmakers loosen vaccine requirements for children.
Tuberculosis case confirmed at suburban high school. What we know so far
Health officials issued a warning this week after someone at a suburban Chicago high school was diagnosed with active ...
The Topeka Capital-Journal on MSN15d
DOGE cuts health funding to Kansas, claims $49M in savings from canceled grants
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment and other agencies are evaluating the impact of DOGE canceling federal health ...
Medical Xpress on MSN10d
Study finds many TB cases may have gone undetected in prisons in Europe and the Americas during COVID-19
Published in The Lancet Public Health, the study found that tuberculosis diagnoses plummeted by as much ... which is already ...
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Tuberculosis cases in the US rose to their highest levels in more than a dozen years
THE PUBLIC HEALTH THREAT LEVEL IS LOW ... including a recent one in the Kansas City, Kansas area. The Kansas TB rate jumped 148% last year, according to the new CDC data. Alaska and Hawaii ...
The Associated Press on MSN21d
Tuberculosis cases in the US rose to their highest levels in more than a dozen years
THE PUBLIC HEALTH THREAT LEVEL IS LOW ... including a recent one in the Kansas City, Kansas area. The Kansas TB rate jumped 148% last year, according to the new CDC data. Alaska and Hawaii continue to ...