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The Largest Tuberculosis Outbreak In U.S. History Is Happening Right Now. Here’s How To Protect Yourself, According To An Infectious Disease Doctor. Korin Miller. January 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM.
The history of tuberculosis encompasses the origins of the disease, tuberculosis (TB) through to the vaccines and treatments methods developed to contain and mitigate its impact. Throughout history, the disease tuberculosis has been variously known as consumption, phthisis, and the White Plague.
Western Hemisphere populations were ravaged mostly by smallpox, but also typhus, measles, influenza, bubonic plague, cholera, malaria, tuberculosis, mumps, yellow fever, and pertussis. The lack of written records in many places and the destruction of many native societies by disease, war, and colonization make estimates uncertain.
Agha Ahmad Ali (1839–1873), Bengali academic, scholar of Persian and Urdu poet, died of tuberculosis in June 1873; Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet, died from tuberculosis; Manuel Bandeira, Brazilian poet, had tuberculosis in 1904 and expressed the effects of the disease in his life in many of his poems
An outbreak of the respiratory disease tuberculosis in Kansas is the largest in the state — and some are saying it’s the biggest surge in recent U.S. history.. There are a total of 67 active ...
Kansas is currently facing the worst tuberculosis outbreak in the state’s history. Two people have died in the outbreak. What to know about a tuberculosis vaccine. A tuberculosis (TB) outbreak ...
[1] 109 cases of tuberculosis were recorded in Kansas in 2024, compared to 51 in 2023. [2] It is the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the U.S. since documentation began in the 1950s. [3] [4] The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has not publicly identified the source of the outbreak. [5]
A tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has become the largest documented on record in the United States. As of Jan. 24, 2025, there have been 67 active cases reported in Wyandotte County ...