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.
Virtually nothing is known about the Kansas tuberculosis outbreak. This disease surpassed COVID as the leading disease cause of death in the world.
Without government funding, research to fight tuberculosis would probably never have happened and countless lives would have been unnecessarily cut short. An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City metropolitan area straddling Kansas and Missouri has made headlines across the country,
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services is sharing an update to Tuberculosis cases in Nebraska, and an outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas.
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