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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. advertisement. The Topeka Capital-Journal.

While cases of TB have been on the rise, Kansas health officials said the threat to the general public remains “very low.” . According to the CDC, anyone can contract tuberculosis, ...

Tuberculosis was responsible for 25% of all deaths in Europe from the 1600s to the 1800s, according to the CDC. Hawkinson said treatment for a serious tuberculosis case usually lasts about six months.

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

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 ...

CDC statistics for 2025 were not available online. "A total of 1.25 million people died from tuberculosis in 2023 (including 161 000 people with HIV)," the World Health Organization ...

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.

But the CDC rebutted that characterization, pointing to a tuberculosis outbreak in Georgia homeless shelters from 2015 to 2017, in which more than 170 cases of active tuberculosis and over 400 ...

CDC says Kansas tuberculosis outbreak isn't the largest. Here's what KDHE meant. Jason Alatidd, Topeka Capital-Journal. Fri, January 31, 2025 at 10:09 AM UTC. 2 min read.