How can this possibly be America's largest TB outbreak in history? TB was killing thousands of people per year in America in the 1800s.
The article states that they only started recording in the 1950s.
Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s
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#12How can this possibly be America's largest TB outbreak in history? TB was killing thousands of people per year in America in the 1800s.
> She noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started monitoring and reporting tuberculosis cases in the U.S. in the 1950s.
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#13How can this possibly be America's largest TB outbreak in history? TB was killing thousands of people per year in America in the 1800s.
If you read the article, it appears they've only been keeping records in Kansas since the 50's. And I think the headline is wrong: it's the biggest in Kansas's records. I could be mistaken about that.
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#14This is the type of thing that'd normally show up on CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report which has been published weekly since 1960 (my understanding is this is without fail). But unfortunately the current administration has decided an ideological purification is more important than keeping the American public apprised of threats to their health. So it wasn't published last week, and probably won't be this we…
How is it that Trump is so timely at cutting medical resources right before the moment it is most needed? Or perhaps such outbreaks are more common than you'd expect and it's the equivalent of leaving a firewall down for a day? And yeah, I'm aware a bigger factor in this freeze was hiding the very obvious Bird Flu pandemic. Can't hide the eggs getting more expensive though.
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#15This is the type of thing that'd normally show up on CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report which has been published weekly since 1960 (my understanding is this is without fail). But unfortunately the current administration has decided an ideological purification is more important than keeping the American public apprised of threats to their health. So it wasn't published last week, and probably won't be this we…
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#16Weird. Where did it come from? It’s basically unheard of in the US.
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#17From the article: An tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in recorded history in the US....the CDC started monitoring TB in the US in the 1950s. "This is mainly due to the rapid number of cases in the short amount of time. There are a few other states that currently have large outbreaks that are also ongoing." People with an active infection feel sick and can spread it to others, while people with a…
> It is treatable with antibiotics. Treating it casually has led to widespread resistance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multidrug-resistant_tuberculos... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensively_drug-resistant_tub... > People with an active infection feel sick and can spread it to others, while people with a latent infection don't feel sick and can't spread it. https://www.who.int/teams/global-tuberculosis-programm…
Yeah… understatement with respect to TB is pretty scary. There’s a limited set of effective antibiotics, some strains are resistant, and some drugs have severe side effects.
You have to be a little suspicious of some of this — folks are looking for political reasons for scary disease outbreaks.
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#19This is the type of thing that'd normally show up on CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report which has been published weekly since 1960 (my understanding is this is without fail). But unfortunately the current administration has decided an ideological purification is more important than keeping the American public apprised of threats to their health. So it wasn't published last week, and probably won't be this we…
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"None of the Above" (see Bruster's Millions (Movie)) really needs to be an option...
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#20Weird. Where did it come from? It’s basically unheard of in the US.
Here is an early article about the outbreak. [0]
[0] https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/09/05/...
Appears that it originated within a family group involving 6 kids and 7 adults.