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"On June 10, 2011, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) Infectious Disease and Epidemiologic Response (IDER) team was notified of a nine-year-old male who tested positive for Bordetella pertussis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). At 11:00 AM that day, Ford County Health Department (FCHD) was notified of this case. FCHD reviewed the case on the day of notification, but contact with the parent of the case did not occur until the afternoon of Monday, June 13. Further investigation and surveillance identified additional cases; all cases were associated to Dodge City, Kansas. Potential transmission settings included households, a summer day camp, and healthcare and manufacturing work settings. Near the end of the outbreak, an elementary school became a potential concern. No additional cases were identified after September 6."

"On August 11, 2005, Ford County Health Department contacted KDHE BEDP concerning a complaint made by a private citizen. Initially, the citizen claimed that after a group function (Group A) at a recreational water facility, 22 persons became ill with diarrhea and nausea. Gray County Health Department began collection a line list of all persons in Group A, who went to the recreational water facility."

"In late June 2004, two clusters of three cases each (N=6) of Salmonella braenderup were diagnosed in Kansas. One cluster was located in Johnson County (Northeast Kansas) and the other in Ford County. The six cases had the same pulse field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) pattern and were later linked using the same technique to approximately 137 cases in 19 states. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) coordinated the investigation of cases due to the multi-state nature of the potential outbreak. The CDC decided to conduct a case control study using a survey they developed. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment conducted a separate investigation in conjunction with the two local health departments in the counties where the cases were located. The information that follows describes the investigation of the two clusters in Kansas by the Epidemiology Services Section (ESS) of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE)."