Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...
The case counts seem to be dropping. But health officials say that's because violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
“EIS [Epidemiology Intelligence Service] officers step up at a moment’s notice to investigate public health threats in the ...
Federal agencies have mandated and facilitated testing for the H5N1 virus to try to protect birds, cows and humans; ...
But the relative size of the outbreak is irrelevant. Kansas numbers continue to grow, and Dr. William Schaffner, infectious ...
The CDC reported high levels of respiratory virus activity across the U.S., with flu-related emergency department visits remaining very high, according to the latest CDC data. COVID-19 visits were low ...
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 370,000 hospitalizations related to the flu -- the most since the 2015-2016 ...
America's opioid crisis is showing signs of subsiding, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
Kansas lawmakers on Tuesday overrode Governor Laura Kelly's veto of a measure that bans gender-affirming care for minors in ...
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.