After the CDC said the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak isn't the largest in documented history, KDHE clarified they meant the ...

After the CDC said the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak isn't the largest in documented history, KDHE clarified they meant the largest in a single year.

TB germs are put into the air when a person with active TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs, speaks or sings, the CDC said. The germs can stay in the air for several hours, depending on the ...

Is Kansas TB Outbreak a Record? Editor’s note: U.S. News has updated this story due to information provided by the CDC. Read on for more detail. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is ...

The CDC estimates that 13 million Americans (just under 4 percent of the total population) live with latent tuberculosis, one in 10 of which will turn into an active infection without treatment.

The tuberculosis vaccine is not required in Kansas for students in kindergarten through 12th grade, according to KDHE. People who are immunocompromised should also not receive the vaccine, the CDC ...

But the CDC rebutted that characterization, pointing to a tuberculosis outbreak in Georgia homeless shelters from 2015 to ...

In 2023, the CDC recorded 46 active TB cases in Kansas, says Bronaugh. “It’s a substantial outbreak of tuberculosis,” Dr. William Schaffner, ...

On Tuesday, a CDC spokesperson told U.S. News the claim by Kansas health officials was incorrect, and pointed to a yearslong outbreak that appears to have started in 2008 at an Atlanta homeless ...

After the CDC said the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak isn't the largest in documented history, KDHE clarified they meant the largest in a single year.