Kansas City Chiefs game drew lots of travelers. Should you be worried about tuberculosis?
No, you probably didn’t get tuberculosis at Sunday’s Chiefs game. A yearlong outbreak of the bacterial infection in the Kansas City metropolitan area has raised concerns about spread locally and nationally.
Major tuberculosis outbreak hits Kansas City area
An outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City area has grown into one of the largest ever recorded in the United States, with dozens of active cases of the infectious disease reported, according to health officials.
The tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas is alarming. It's not the biggest in US history though, CDC says
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.
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We would expect to see a handful of cases every year,” said Dr. Dana Hawkinson, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Kansas Health System. But the high case counts in this outbreak were a “stark warning,
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The Kansas City area is at the epicenter of an “unprecedented” tuberculosis outbreak, which is among the largest in U.S. history, the Kansas City Star reported. As of Friday, 67 people were being treated for TB in Kansas,
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The outbreak poses “very low risk to the general public, including the surrounding counties,” the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said.
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The United States is experiencing one of its largest outbreaks of tuberculosis since the CDC began reporting in the 1950s.
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