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 ...

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

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.

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.

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear ...

In an email to The Star, a CDC spokesperson identified two outbreaks within the last decade linked to more TB infections than Kansas’ ongoing outbreak, including one from 2015-2017 when the ...

Last year, the U.S. saw more than 8,700 cases of TB, according to CDC data. Although TB cases have been steadily declining since the mid 1990s, rates increased in 2021, 2022 and 2023, with 2023 ...

But a spokesperson for the CDC on Tuesday refuted that claim, noting at least two larger TB outbreaks in recent history. In one, the disease spread through Georgia homeless shelters.Public health ...