Disaster ‘Unprecedented’ TB outbreak recorded in Kansas with nearly 70 cases reported - ‘Currently, Kansas has the largest outbreak that they’ve ever had in history’ said a Kansas Department of Health and Environment official

An unprecedented wave of tuberculosis infections has struck the state of Kansas as nearly 70 cases have been recorded, say officials.

Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced 67 active outbreak cases and 79 latent infections in Kansas City, Kansas, as of Friday since 2024. The majority of cases were declared to have broken out in Wyandotte County and Johnson County, just west and southwest of the metro area.

KDHE Deputy Secretary Ashley Goss told the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee Tuesday: “Currently, Kansas has the largest outbreak that they’ve ever had in history.”

But despite this, officials stated that the outbreak had a very low risk to the general public and surrounding counties.

In September 2023, a CDC report revealed that an outbreak of multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB had driven up cases from 2019–2021 when recorded cases were between 37– 43 – a number that increased to 52 in 2022. Thirteen people in four low-income households in Kansas were said to have contracted the anti-biotic resistant disease.

TB is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium that typically strikes the lungs but can also hinder other parts of the body. It is spread through the area, when a person with an active infection coughs, speaks, or sings.

Two strains of the infection exist, namely an active infection which can cause nausea and is contagious, and a latent infection which is the opposite of the former: non-contagious and does not cause sickness.

People cannot catch the disease through kissing, shaking hands, sharing food, drink, or toothbrushes, or through sharing bedding or the same toilet in a household.

If a person catches TB, it can be treated with antibiotics and shortly after starting treatment, the active infection will no longer be infectious to others.

What are the symptoms of Tuberculosis?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an active TB case can present in the lungs through symptoms such as:

• A bad cough that persists for 3 weeks or longer
• Chest pain
• Coughing up blood or sputum (phlegm) from deep inside the lungs

Other associated symptoms of active TB disease are:

• Weakness or fatigue
• Weight loss
• No appetite
• Chills
• Fever
• Sweating at night

Symptoms of active TB disease in other parts of the body depend on the area affected:

• If in the lymph nodes, it may cause a firm red or purple swelling under the skin
• If the kidney, may cause blood in the urine.
• TB meningitis (the brain) can cause headaches or confusion
• Of the spine, may cause back pain
• Of the larynx, may cause hoarseness

KDHE advised that local health departments were working with each TB patient to identify possible close contacts who may also have contracted the disease.

They are conducting TB testing at no cost.

Any patients who test positive will receive further screening to determine whether their case is active or latent.

Uninsured people as well as those whose health insurance does not cover it, will receive free treatment, said KDHE.

Medical officials will continue to monitor patients to “help them stay on course”, said the department.

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[wtfNeedSignUp]

Betting on illegals bringing it in

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

When we're all fucked, not by COVID, but by Mexicans dragging in mutated forms of diseases we haven't seen since the end of the Victorian era.

 

[Pampered Degenerate]

Betting on illegals bringing it in

And/or turd worlders going home for holidays and bringing back some gifts with which to enrich us further.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Better lock down the nation for 2 weeks.

 

[Starved Artist]

Betting on illegals bringing it in

It was already here. It's been here since before Covid and you can search for my other rant about it. Lmao.

edit: 2013, some jewish guys brought it back with them from Israel and we've been suffering from sporatic outbreaks in NYC ever since.

 

[mofu mofo]

It was already here. It's been here since before Covid and you can search for my other rant about it. Lmao.

edit: 2013, some jewish guys brought it back with them from Israel and we've been suffering from sporatic outbreaks in NYC ever since.

Farmers reflexively blame Mexicans the one time that it actually is the Jews.

 

[Strix454]

The Kansas TB comes from Guam and Micronesia. Its been genetically identified as coming from there for a few years. The adults arrive in Kansas infectious with TB and spread it around. In particular to their own children.
The Kansas outbreak has been going on since 2021 and continues to get bigger.

Outbreaks in the rest of country (including NYC) have different sources. But the overall problem is a lack of basic public health overseas and people getting into the US who are active spreaders of diseases.
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Israel has a big problem with TB because of people moving to Israel from shit places and people who lived in shit communities in those places where health and hygiene are secondary considerations.

 

[JudyTester]

Since the article unhelpfully tells you how you can't catch TB, but doesn't tell you how you can catch it...

>Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that spreads through the air when someone with active TB coughs, sneezes, speaks, laughs, or sings. To catch TB, you need to breathe in the TB germs for a prolonged period of time.

 

[Meat Target]

Wyandotte County is the KCK ghetto, for the record. And one of the state's few Dem strongholds.

 

[Otterly]

Thirteen people in four low-income households in Kansas were said to have contracted the anti-biotic resistant disease.

TB is a disease we’d largely eradicated and again, it’s being brought back in by immigrants. There are parts of London where the TB rates are higher than the worst African war zones.

People cannot catch the disease through kissing, shaking hands, sharing food, drink, or toothbrushes, or through sharing bedding or the same toilet in a household.

TB is present in sputum and saliva. I would be very surprised if the chances of catching it from a shared toothbrush were nil.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

TB is present in sputum and saliva. I would be very surprised if the chances of catching it from a shared toothbrush were nil.

What if it's one of those musical toothbrushes that sings? You can catch it from singing, I've read.

 

[Otterly]

What if it's one of those musical toothbrushes that sings? You can catch it from singing, I've read.

Dunno but if it’s showtunes it might give you the AIDS

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Dunno but if it’s showtunes it might give you the AIDS

If it sings classic rock, it'll give you an addiction to every drug under the sun.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

People cannot catch the disease through kissing, shaking hands, sharing food, drink, or toothbrushes, or through sharing bedding or the same toilet in a household.

Okay but to do any of those things one would need to be in close enough proximity to someone infected and contagious to possibly get it so...like...I do not even understand why this is in the article. It reminds me of Go hug a person in Chinatown.

TB is a disease we’d largely eradicated and again, it’s being brought back in by immigrants. There are parts of London where the TB rates are higher than the worst African war zones.

TB is present in sputum and saliva. I would be very surprised if the chances of catching it from a shared toothbrush were nil.

Sharing a toothbrush is one of those things that just horrifies me though I am the kind of weirdo that runs my toothbrush under full hot water for probably wastefully too long before and after I use it.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Diversity is out str-cough cough cough.
Diversity is cough cough cough
Diversity...is....our...cough cough Ackkk

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

speaks, laughs, or sings

maybe they need to all shut the fuck up, stop singing, and never laugh again

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

It was already here. It's been here since before Covid and you can search for my other rant about it. Lmao.

edit: 2013, some jewish guys brought it back with them from Israel and we've been suffering from sporatic outbreaks in NYC ever since.

Bro what the fuck are you talking about. I'm sure one outbreak in NYC was linked to Jews, but Mexicans and other spics have been bringing drug-resistant TB back to the US since the 90s. Teachers in the Southwest have to get tested once a year because of it. They also are the one's who brought back bedbugs- the US completely eradicated them, but first some Puerto Ricans brought it to New York (though it was confined there) then a few years later spics brought them in through the southern border and they spread everywhere and even wiped out the population that was in New York in bed bug warfare.

I really, really hope ICE catches that one obese bitch who was licking the knife she was cutting EBT bought fruit to sell in the subway because I would bet money that bitch has TB.

 

[ephermeral]

I really, really hope ICE catches that one obese bitch who was licking the knife she was cutting EBT bought fruit to sell in the subway because I would bet money that bitch has TB.

Jesus Christ that’s fucking disgusting. The sooner these locusts are forced out, the better.

 

[JosephStalin]

67 cases the most in Kansas history? My ass.

Back in the 19th and early 20th centuries, TB cut swaths throughout the population. Shit was widespread. People were so desperate for a cure that a bunch of fake doctors and snake-oil salesmen made bank. Have a book put out by the American Medical Association over 100 years ago full of stories about these TB quacks and grifters.

There were few effective treatments. When possible, people moved to dry climates, like Arizona or Colorado, which sometimes helped. Some were cared for in county/state TB sanitariums. Can remember when the TB sanitarium in the area where I was living closed.

The main thing that stopped TB was the invention of antibiotics. We need new antibiotics.

Gather these fuckers up, quarantine them, and treat them.