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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And the immigration status of those infected is......
Wear a mask.
Re: “ there is no threat to the general public”
Really? Of course there is!
Everyone had that scar. Don’t know which one it was. I remember getting a shot at school that bled thru my shirt afterwards. Must have been a bad jab. It’s seared in my brain.
My greatgrandmother died from TB. People may have brought it from Europe during WWI along with influenza. Tried to cure the TB by going to AZ from NW Ohio. Did not work.
Doc Holiday moved to Colorado Springs for the same reason.
Really? I had never heard that.
Fortunately for my grandmother (and me, obviously), who was just under three, neither she nor my greatgrandfather got TB as far as I know. He had asthma, though.
I was wrong. Glenwod Springs, not Colorado Springs.
https://www.hotelcolorado.com/blog/doc-holliday-a-high-roller-brought-low/
He still moved to get rid of the TB. Did it work?
Never mind, I read the link
https://www.hotelcolorado.com/blog/doc-holliday-a-high-roller-brought-low/
One Foot in the Grave
By the time Holliday made his way to Glenwood Springs, he was 36 and in the final stages of tuberculosis. Unfortunately, the geothermal springs were of no use to him at this stage in his illness. Though he only resided in the hot springs town a short time, Holliday did what he did best: dealing faro at local saloons along Seventh Street while he was able. No longer at the top of his game, Holliday only lasted a few months at the tables; he was constantly coughing and unsteady on his legs.
Poor guy. We all but wiped it out in the US, except for the illegals bringing it in.
My husband’s uncle had it. He had scrammed to Texas for awhile in the 80s, maybe that is where he picked it up.
It’s murder.
A bigger threat today is in many nations this isn't your grandparents or great grandparents TB it's a stronger strain due to people mainly in 3rd world not completing treatment and that allows it to become medication resistant. That is the threat. Run of the mill TB in the US due to testing and proper treatment protocol is not a big threat like third world cases.
Almost all of the TB in the US is of the “ordinary” kind. There is no b.s. when any drug resistant form is found.
What makes things worse is that TB is a very slow moving bacteria, much like its cousin, Leprosy. Thus to discern what type it is, you have to give an anti-TB drug and see if it works. If it does, great, but if it doesn’t, you must try a different drug.
Under the microscope, a living TB bacillus and a dead one look identical, but some high school student discovered a stain that would be picked up by a living bacillus, but not a dead one.
But if you ever want to see local, state and federal health officers go bananas, give them a DR TB infection. Total isolation, and they don’t get out until they are healed or dead. No Habeas Corpus. No appeal. They’ll probably burn his linens and mattress, like in the good old days.
Exactly. The illegal immigrants brought it with them, and it’s OBiden’s fault they are here. Ipso facto, the blame falls totally on the shoulders of the previous regime.
There is a large Hispanic population in Kansas City Kansas ( Which is Wyandotte Country). I have no doubt that a good fraction of them have not been through any medical screening when they crossed the border.
and just now making the news .... Kansas pretends to be God fearing and conservative ... but they like their illegals as much as any sanctuary state/city.
They say .25% of global population has TB?
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