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It’s easy to think that tuberculosis is an illness from another era. But the United States is actually experiencing the largest tuberculosis outbreak in its history.. The outbreak, which is ...
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However, a CDC spokesperson rebutted this claim, pointing to two recent tuberculosis outbreaks in the U.S. involving a larger number of cases, NBC News previously reported. These include an ...
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 ...
Starting in 2024, the U.S. state of Kansas experienced a sudden rise in cases of tuberculosis, with 67 active cases. [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]
Roughly one-quarter of the world's population has been infected with M. tuberculosis, [6] with new infections occurring in about 1% of the population each year. [11] However, most infections with M. tuberculosis do not cause disease, [169] and 90–95% of infections remain asymptomatic. [87] In 2012, an estimated 8.6 million chronic cases were ...
CNN has reached out to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for comment on the outbreak. Nationally, tuberculosis case counts in the United States increased in 2023 among all age ...
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