The tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area is not, in fact, the largest in U.S. history. But it does offer an important public health lesson.
Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne diseases. Two fired CDC workers had been deployed to Kansas City to help work on a tuberculosis outbreak.
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Immigrant status, homelessness or prison ties to TB outbreak should be made public | Opinionstate and federal public health officials have been tracking one of the nation’s largest outbreaks of tuberculosis in decades. So far, 67 communicable active cases of the world’s deadliest airborne pathogen have been found in Kansas along with 79 of ...
Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area. Some staff think the tension set back the tuberculosis response — or at least made it more difficult.
In this final interview clip, Michael A. Bernstein, MD, stresses the need for effective communication and proactive screening to contain the ongoing tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City.
Indeed, the pathogen seems like ancient history — but as recent developments indicate, tuberculosis isn’t done with us yet. As it happens, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes tuberculosis,
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