The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention has made a claim by Kansas’s health officials that a major outbreak in the state is the largest in the recorded history of the nation. “Currently, Kansas has the biggest outbreak that he has ever done in history,” Ashley Gauss, a Deputy Secretary, Ashley Gaus Cenus department of health and environmentThe state explained to the Public Health and Welfare Committee of the Senate.

The Director of Communications of the Department, Jill Bonga later stated that the outbreak of the region is “the biggest document in American history.”

Bong said: “The current TB outbreak marks of the region” The biggest document in the US history, currently since the 1950s, when the Disease Control and Prevention Center began monitoring and reporting TB cases. ,

Later, a CDC spokesperson said that the claim was wrong by the health officials of the Canasus and it was reported that the year’s outbreak started in a homeless shelter in Atlanta in 2008 and eventually “more than 170 cases of TB disease and passive TB More than 400 cases occurred as “. In 2017. There were also evidence of 2021 bone graft, which found 87 out of 113 people from a deceased donor, with compatible signs with tuberculosis.

Report of 67 active TB cases in Kansas

According to officials, so far, at least 67 active cases of tuberculosis have been bound by the outbreak in the Cansus City area related to the current outbreak in January 2024.

In addition to the area, 79 people have been reported to have reported latent infection of tuberculosis associated with the outbreak since 2024, and last year two TB deaths related to outbreak were reported.

What is tuberculosis,

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that causes infection in your lungs or other tissues. It usually affects your lungs, but it can also affect other organs such as your spine, brain or kidneys.

Also known as TB, tuberculosis does not make everyone sick, but if you get sick, you need to treat. According to experts, if you are infected with bacteria, but have no symptoms, you may have a passive tuberculosis or latent tuberculosis infection. It may seem that TB has gone away, but it is inactive inside your body.

If you are infected, develop symptoms, and are infectious, then you have active tuberculosis.

What is the cause of tuberculosis,

TB caused by bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Those whose germs spread through the wind and usually infect the lungs, but can also infect other parts of the body. Even if TB is contagious, it does not spread easily.

You usually have to spend a lot of time in contact with infectious to catch it.

The infection extends when a person with active TB disease releases germs in the air through cough, sneezing, talking, or even laughing. Only people with active pulmonary infections are contagious.

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