Africa: As Tuberculosis Cases Rise in the U.S. and Worldwide, Health Officials Puzzle Over the Resurgence of a Disease Once in Decline: [The Conversation Africa] An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB - a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough - began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties and continues as of early March 2025. To date, 147 people have been reportedly… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJNCZ6 #Tuberculosis #PublicHealth #FightTB #HealthAwareness #TBOutbreak

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I was able to find a two day old article about the outbreak from the Topeka Capital-Journal by searching Ground.News.

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Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history

https://ground.news/article/kansas-tuberculosis-outbreak-is-now-americas-largest-in-recorded-history

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Direct to Topeka Capital-Journal:
https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/politics/government/2025/01/24/kansas-tuberculosis-outbreak-is-largest-in-recorded-history-in-u-s/77881467007/

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Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now Americas largest in recorded history

Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s.

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