COVID paused prevention efforts, which helped fuel the rise in new infections. Now federal funding cuts threaten to disrupt those efforts again.

The number of patients with confirmed cases of measles increased by six over the past two weeks in Kansas. Here's where the ...

Kansas added three more cases this week for a total of 83 across 11 counties in the southwestern part of the state, with ...

Kansas reports 80 measles cases in 2025, with 77 tied to southwest outbreak. Children under 10 represent major share of infections; most were unvaccinated. CDC confirms U.S. outbreak total at ...

Kansas reports 80 measles cases in 2025, with 77 tied to southwest outbreak. Children under 10 represent major share of infections; most were unvaccinated. CDC confirms U.S. outbreak total at ...

It would be nice if the CDC made that a priority. David Mastio is a national opinion columnist for McClatchy and the Kansas City Star. This story was originally published June 3, 2025 at 5:09 AM.

In Kansas, the CDC said 285 of the 556 drug overdose deaths – or 51.2% – involved synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Since 1999, overdose deaths have increased by 436% in Missouri and 524% in Kansas ...

In the decade before the measles vaccine became available, the CDC estimates that 3 to 4 million in the U.S. were sickened by measles every year, about 48,000 were hospitalized and about 400 to ...

So far, only two states — Texas and Kansas — are listed by the CDC as having issued "updated outbreak recommendations" in response to the virus, which are broken down by age for most residents.

Kansas health officials have confirmed 23 measles cases, marking an outbreak for the state as infections in at least 17 states have led to the most cases in the U.S. in a single year since 2019.

For comparison, 16 outbreaks were reported during 2024 and 69% of cases were outbreak associated, according to CDC data. People under the age of 19 account for 79% of the measles cases in 2025 ...

The firings also swept up two CDC workers, both part of a public health training program, who'd been deployed to work on a tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City, CDC sources told NPR.