State health officials in Kansas have issued a warning to healthcare providers this week as measles cases climb across the ...

Kansas is "below the herd immunity threshold" for measles, as measured by KDHE's estimated MMR immunization rates for kindergarten students.

Health officials have warned parents that the best defense against measles as a now-fatal outbreak continues is to get their ...

The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment shouldn’t let politics undermine public ... After the outbreak was ...

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

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