Tuberculosis epidemic in Kansas

Genocide is the point of all their policies.

A PSA

Consider public health and epidemiology as a career path if you are still very young.

Go to school get those degrees because in a few years we will be praying to the heavens for you to come in and save us and save the day.

Trash taking itself out.

All this dumb anti-science and anti-logic mentality reminds me of this PSA...

Completely unnecessary.

Kansas, you say?

I guess that'll be fine.

Building camps now before the rest of the infectious disease epidemics occur is probably a good idea in terms of not having to rush things later.

Good planning in action

You do know the Great Influenza Pandemic (a/k/a the erroneous "Spanish Flu") of 1918 began in Kansas, right?

Tuberculosis epidemics and internment camps? OP, can you link to some reputable news sources for these statements?

Camps were at least being discussed as a possibility in 1982 or so. Saved by science.

The republicans are bringing back all the hits. TB, what's next, the plague?

Are these Mexicans and illegals? Do they vaccinate in 3rd world countries??

The outbreak appears to be in two of the more urbanized counties/suburban areas of the Kansas City metro area.

This doesn’t appear to be an instance of antivaxxers being idiots, at least from what I’ve read so far. Normally, I would say let the antivaxxers kill themselves - if that were the case here.

The counties in question tend to lean blue and purple in terms of voting. There is more to this than just “antivaxxer idiots” getting what they deserve.

R11 a great question what next?

Gonorrhea that no longer responds to treatment

And what happens then? Unsafe high risk sex is a felony.

R13, you do know that the TB vaccine is rarely if ever given in the US don't you?

I guess we’re not in Kansas anymore!

Isn't Kansas also the serial killer capital of the world? Do you think it might be connected??

To paraphrase the aged MAGA $trumpet interviewed during the first term: "I don't care who dies, so long as the right ones die."

OP, you're ill-informed. California, New York, Texas and Florida account for 50% of all cases in the US, though they are only about a third of the US population.

In 2023, the TB incidence rates (cases per 100,000 persons) in reporting areas above the national incidence rate of 2.9 cases per 100,000 persons were: Alaska, 10.5, Hawaii, 8.1, California, 5.4, New York, including New York City,A 4.6, Texas, 4.1, District of Columbia, 4.0, New Jersey, 3.7, Maryland, 3.3, Massachusetts, 3.2

I wonder if this outbreak is happening at a jail, prison, group home or homeless shelter. These are common locations for larger outbreaks of TB in the US.

Still waiting for a link from OP.

The problem with treating tuberculosis is that it must be treated over a fairly long period of time. The homeless and people outside the usual social structures tend not to follow through and they are difficult to find by the city infectious control people tasked with ensuring treatment completion. Also, overall immune health is a factor in contracting it.

NPR:" 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 diagnosed with TB in the outbreak, with 67 becoming ill. The remaining 80 people diagnosed with TB in Kansas contracted the illness but showed no symptoms, which is called a latent infection."

Kansas Dept of Health and Education: "To date, most TB cases have been in Wyandotte County, with very low risk to the general public, including the surrounding counties." That would indicate to me that this "outbreak" is likely restricted to the kinds of environments R20 lists.

In many places R22, if you are without a permanent address and are diagnosed with TB, you will be quarantined for treatment. The most significant contributor to the spread of TB is being in contact with others who have it, without regard to health status.

I’m a Democrat, don’t blame me. Have you tried to reason with flyoverstan deplorables?