Friday, December 19, 2014

Kansas gets low grade for disease preparedness

By Dave Ranney
KHI News Service

KANSAS CITY, KAN. — Kansas is among the nation’s least prepared states for responding to outbreaks of severe infectious diseases, according to a national report.

The report, released Thursday by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, found that Kansas met three out of 10 key measures having to do preventing, detecting, diagnosing and responding to outbreaks.