OT: Largest Tuberculosis breakout in US History in Kansas

[onewoof]

I got the TB vaccine 20 years ago due to working in a hospital environment. Not a common vaccine apparently.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/28/health/tuberculosis-outbreak-kansas/index.html

 

[Felonious Junk]

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Lunger

 

[HailStout]

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.

apnews.com

Kind of freaky, but this isn’t anything that everybody needs to get worried about. Thankfully TB isn’t one of those things that is passed as easily as COVID, the flu, etc.

 

[HailStout]

I need a poster of him for my office

 

[vhdawg]

Somebody shouldn't have beat up Thomas Downes.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

I got the TB vaccine 20 years ago due to working in a hospital environment. Not a common vaccine apparently.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/28/health/tuberculosis-outbreak-kansas/index.html

Interesting. Wonder why.

 

[onewoof]

Interesting. Wonder why.

Because it's been dormant enough to not worry about

 

[horshack.sixpack]

Because it's been dormant enough to not worry about

I realize that is why we don't vaccinate. My wondering was more about the cause of the breakout.

 

[Lawdawg.sixpack]

 

[HailStout]

I realize that is why we don't vaccinate. My wondering was more about the cause of the breakout.

my guess? They are going to locate a patient zero who had laryngeal TB. When you get TB in your larynx it becomes VERY contagious. Thankfully that is rare.

 

[Bullldawg78]

Not trying to make this political, but possibly from overcrowded living situations. Maybe came from a country south of US where it is more prevalent? Brazil, Peru and Mexico account for half of all TB cases in the Americas.

 

[L4Dawg]

Interesting. Wonder why.

It's not that easy to catch.

 

[L4Dawg]

Not trying to make this political, but possibly from overcrowded living situations. Maybe came from a country south of US where it is more prevalent? Brazil, Peru and Mexico account for half of all TB cases in the Americas.

That is entirely possible. In fact I'd say it's likely.

 

[HailStout]

Not trying to make this political, but possibly from overcrowded living situations. Maybe came from a country south of US where it is more prevalent? Brazil, Peru and Mexico account for half of all TB cases in the Americas.

I have no doubt that the outbreak occurred within poorer people with poor access to healthcare Who lived in crowded conditions. Also, stating TB is more prevalent in other countries isnt political. It is scientific fact.

 

[mcdawg22]

I bet it started with an NFL ref. They have been giving Kansas City a reach around for the last 5 months.

 

[Podgy]

Stock up on ivermectin***
The damn bacterial and viral world is always out to get us. Germs are such jerks. We should add them to those coexist bumper stickers that help us all get along a lot better.

 

[onewoof]

Stock up on ivermectin***
The damn bacterial and viral world is always out to get us. Germs are such jerks. We should add them to those coexist bumper stickers that help us all get along a lot better.

Whole raw milk and essential oils***

 

[WilCoDawg]

I have no doubt that the outbreak occurred within poorer people with poor access to healthcare Who lived in crowded conditions. Also, stating TB is more prevalent in other countries isnt political. It is scientific fact.

You’re underestimating the ability of certain posters to turn their farts suddenly stinking into a political issue.

 

[Snave]

It's the "find out" phase