disease

Throughout America's history, the displaced and the disenfranchised have suffered the most from uncontrolled diseases.

"Everything I do is sort of born out of trauma," says Dylan Mortimer, who hopes a new series can "transform something that is seemingly hopeless into something hopeful."

The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response evaluated the U.S. response to an pandemic he said was only a matter of time.

A medical veteran of the Ebola and SARS outbreaks analyzes COVID-19's spread, infectious disease experts advise how to stay safe in public, and a teacher delivers art lessons during the pandemic.

This post was updated daily through June 5 with information about the coronavirus in the Kansas City metro. For more recent and ongoing coverage, go to…

Segment 1: What we know about COVID-19, and what we don'tA lot is unknown about the novel coronavirus currently circulating the globe, giving rise to…

Para leer este artículo en Español, haga clic aquí.KCUR is working around the clock to keep you as informed as possible about the latest COVID-19 news in…

Segment 1: What we know about COVID-19, and what we don'tA lot is unknown about the novel coronavirus currently circulating the globe, giving rise to…

As word spread about the ordeal surrounding the first coronavirus death in Johnson County, Kansas, first through Joanna Wilson's Facebook updates and then…

Media experts say better news literacy was needed before the recent outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. But the rapid spread of misinformation along with the…

Updated, 9:30 a.m. Thursday, March 19The number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus being diagnosed in Kansas and Missouri is going up, and one…

With COVID-19 forcing schools across the metro to cancel classes and many peole to work from home, the “digital divide" between those with easy and…