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The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an important public health lesson.

Virtually nothing is known about the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak. This disease surpassed COVID-19 as the leading disease cause of death in the world.

According to Greiner and hundreds of emails obtained by the Kansas News Service, things started out smoothly between leadership at the CDC, KDHE and the Wyandotte County Public Health Department.

Correction 01/31/25, 5:30 a.m. ET: This article was updated to reflect the fact that the current TB outbreak in Kansas is not ...

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.

A CDC spokesperson said that isn't accurate, pointing to an outbreak response from 2015 to 2017 and an outbreak in 2021. Now, KDHE says the Kansas outbreak is the largest "over the span of one year." ...