(KANSAS NEWS SERVICE) - The director of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department ... turmoil during the handling of the major tuberculosis outbreak, shown by emails obtained by the Kansas ...

Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just ...

Wyandotte County’s public health officer ... partners that we can effectively respond to and mitigate the tuberculosis outbreak in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties. We will continue to collaborate ...

TB is preventable and treatable — yet ... This harms our county government and negatively impacts the residents of Wyandotte County.” This outbreak isn’t happening in isolation.