Posted on 01/29/2025 2:50:37 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state health official claimed last week.
“We would expect to see a handful of cases every year,” said Dr. Dana Hawkinson, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Kansas Health System. But the high case counts in this outbreak were a “stark warning," he said.
The outbreak has killed two people since it started in January 2024, Kansas state health department spokeswoman Jill Bronaugh said. Health officials in Kansas say there is no threat to the general public.
What is tuberculosis?
TB is caused by bacteria that lives in the people’s lungs and spreads through the air when they talk, cough or sing. It is very infectious, but only spreads when a person has symptoms.
Once it infects a person, TB can take two forms. In “active” TB, the person has a long-standing cough and sometimes bloody phlegm, night sweats, fever, weight loss and swollen glands. In “latent” TB, the bacteria hibernates in the person’s lungs or elsewhere in the body. It does not cause symptoms and does not spread to others.
Roughly a quarter of the global population is estimated to have TB, but only about 5% to 10% of those develop symptoms.
How big is the tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas?
As of Jan. 24, 67 people are being treated for active TB, most of them in Wyandotte County, Bronaugh said. Another 79 have latent TB.
The state’s provisional 2024 count shows 79 active TB cases and 213 latent cases in the two counties where the outbreak is happening, Wyandotte and Johnson. Not all of those are linked to the outbreak and Bronaugh did not respond to requests for clarification.
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You import the 3rd world, you become the 3rd world..the illegals import TB, Measles, Polio, and the Dems use that to say “Well everyone needs to be vaccinated” but notice the illegals dont need their shots
Thank you once again Joe f..ing Biden and all the liberal scum bags that allowed this.
Import tens of millions of unvetted 3rd world humans and you expect, if one has any wherewithal about them at all, 3rd world diseases they bring with them.
In first grade I got a 3 prong needle in my hand to vaccinate against TB, it hurt like hell.
Bringing more vicarious customers over the border for the Pharmaceutical companies- vicarious because the various government units will be the actual customers. The wetbacks just flood into the hospitals with their third world maladies and the governemt gladly picks up the tab for their immigrant partners. It’s Business.
Thanks Pedo Biden for bringing it in all those disease illegal aliens.
I live in KS. What was the shot they gave you that had three needles in the deltoid area, still got the scar?
Probably in the area fedgov shipped illegals into.
That wasn’t a vaccine it was a tb test
Smallpox
My mother had 3. I think I have 2
That was not a vaccination for TB, it was a skin test for the antigens to see if you have it.
I caught TB while living in China. It isn’t fun.
Thank biden and his open door ps for that.
Democrat Kansas Gov. Kelly Signs Bill to Allow Local Police to Cooperate with Feds on Immigration Enforcement
Breitbart ^ | 04/12/2022 | Penny Starr
Posted on 4/12/2022, 6:18:30 PM by ChicagoConservative27
Democrat Kansas Governor Laura Kelly reversed her stance on not allowing local police to work with federal officers to enforce immigration laws by signing a bill on Monday revoking parts of the “safe and welcoming” ordinance put in place in Wyandotte County in February....
I always remind people who want open borders that it was homosexuals who, in 1980, brought AIDS from Africa to the US and after an orgy on Fire Island NY spread it all over the USA.
They don’t like to hear about it.
Note that the Asses-in-the Press couldn’t figure out that the TB scourge was carried by their friends and relative across the Southern Border.
Thank you for that.
Judgement Day can't come soon enough for the open-border globalists.
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