Officials: Kansas TB Outbreak Ranks As Largest In Modern History

We notice that KC public radio is attempting to use qualifiers in order to move the needle on the story.

The reality is that it's a bad situation for migrants, residents, public health and just about anyone who enjoys breathing deeply.

Here's the latest update on a bad situation growing worse . . .

In a state Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare meeting, Ashley Goss, a deputy secretary for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, told committee members the outbreak is unprecedented.

She said although numbers are trending downward since the outbreak developed last year, the health department is working with two large employers to monitor for more cases.

“We do expect to find more, but we’re hoping the ‘more’ that we find is latent TB and not active, so that their lives are not disrupted,” Goss said.

Jill Bronaugh, the state health department’s communications director, confirmed this is the largest tuberculosis outbreak documented in the U.S. since the ’50s.

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Kansas' tuberculosis outbreak is now the largest in the U.S. since the 1950s

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