3 天之前 · 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. ... Public health workers identified more than 170 active TB cases and more than 400 latent cases from 2015 to 2017 ...

2 天之前 · Public health workers identified more than 170 active TB cases and more than 400 latent cases from 2015 to 2017. And in 2021, a nationwide outbreak linked to contaminated tissue used in bone ...

1 天前 · An outbreak of tuberculosis in Kansas has infected dozens of people in the state over the past year, raising concern from health officials even as they note it is not the greatest outbreak of ...

4 天之前 · A tuberculosis outbreak that started in Wyandotte County, Kansas, has grown to be one of the largest in the U.S. since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started tracking the illness in the 1950s, health officials said. ... In a state Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare meeting, Ashley Goss, a deputy secretary for the ...

5 天之前 · "Currently, Kansas has the largest outbreak that they've ever had in history," Ashley Goss, a deputy secretary at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, told the state Senate’s Public ...

3 天之前 · Correction: In a previous version of this report, Kansas health officials said the ongoing TB outbreak is the largest in the United States since the 1950s. The CDC said Tuesday that there have ...

3 天之前 · Kansas is grappling with what state health officials say is one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks there since the 1950s, one that has infected dozens of people. ... to educate the public about ...

2025年1月24日 · Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s.

2024年5月3日 · In its investigation of the outbreak, the city health department has identified about 170 people who have probably been exposed to tuberculosis. But overall, “the risk of TB for people who...

A tuberculosis outbreak in Long Beach, California, led the city to declare a public health emergency. It comes amid a national rise in tuberculosis cases.