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TexasTowelie

(118,355 posts) Tue Jan 28, 2025, 05:57 PM Tuesday

Dozens of tuberculosis cases confirmed in Kansas outbreak - NBC News

At least two people have died and dozens more Kansas residents are being treated for symptoms in what health officials are calling the largest tuberculosis outbreak in U.S. history.

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One of the comments on the YouTube indicates that TB is also in Dallas, but it is not being reported.

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Dozens of tuberculosis cases confirmed in Kansas outbreak - NBC News (Original Post) TexasTowelie Tuesday OP

Red state. Pity. Oopsie Daisy Tuesday #1

Is the CDC allowed to make any comments? Irish_Dem Tuesday #2

I do not know this source, so can't vouch for it. But seems a pretty straight answer to your question MLAA Tuesday #3

Just in time. Trump won't be embarrassed by big epidemics this time. Irish_Dem Tuesday #4

What I don't quite get about this TB outbreak is that it is PoindexterOglethorpe Tuesday #5

Oopsie Daisy

(4,950 posts)

1. Red state. Pity.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2025, 06:01 PM

Tuesday

Irish_Dem

(62,129 posts)

2. Is the CDC allowed to make any comments?

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2025, 06:05 PM

Tuesday

Do they have the funding to help the ongoing situation?

MLAA

(18,807 posts)

3. I do not know this source, so can't vouch for it. But seems a pretty straight answer to your question

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 28, 2025, 06:17 PM

Tuesday

https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/trump-administration-orders-health-communications-pause-cdc-hhs-fda/

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Irish_Dem

(62,129 posts)

4. Just in time. Trump won't be embarrassed by big epidemics this time.

Reply to MLAA (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 28, 2025, 06:26 PM

Tuesday

PoindexterOglethorpe

(27,021 posts)

5. What I don't quite get about this TB outbreak is that it is

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2025, 09:47 PM

Tuesday

supposedly the worst outbreak ever, and it involves fewer than 100 people.

Surely, in the past, long before we had effective TB treatments or medications, a lot more than that were infected at various times.

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