Oh, but with the CDC communication shut down, this will all just go away, right?
How can you have record numbers when you donāt have numbers?
Next up: Stop testing. Although, with the cuts, thatās probably already happened.
Hereās hoping it hits the entire west wing this week.
Quarantine the bastards.
Darn, I just finished my awful TB antibiotic. I might have to do it again!?!?!
"Say doctorsā¦ For the last 20 years! " Seriously, this issue dates back to the 70s-80s when insurance companies became for-profit. With a business model based on providing as little benefit for the dollar of premium as possible, it was always doomed to fail.
Wish i could argue, but i could only add. System is flat broken.
Just a side noteāwhen I used your link, the text of the article was cut off down the right and left sides, and nothing I did on my end could seem to resize it to make that text viewable. But when I went to their home page and clicked through to the article, it was displayed just fine. It looks like there are some extra characters at the end of your link (after the slash), maybe thatās whatās causing the troubleā¦
How did all of humanity suddenly get so violent and stupidā¦ 
Cheap technology.
It really, truly, does not have to be like this. Damned if I can figure out how to fix it, but I am absolutely certain that this is a choice, not a given.
I donāt knowā¦ that didnāt help, but I donāt think itās the sole problem.
It made the problem worse. It helped to spread hate, violence and death. I donāt think it was the case of misguided technlogy. Some of it was deliberated created/used to cause harm.
Itās bad.
Major tuberculosis outbreak hits Kansas City area
By Hannah Lang
January 29, 20254:43 PM ESTUpdated 4 hours ago
Summary 67 active TB cases reported in Kansas City area 384 people managed for TB testing and treatment CDC assists with contact tracing and health educationJan 29 (Reuters) - An outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City area has grown into one of the largest ever recorded in the United States, with dozens of active cases of the infectious disease reported, according to health officials.
As of Jan. 24, 67 active cases of tuberculosis, or TB, had been reported in Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas.
The outbreak began last year, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said on its website. It did not specify a source of the outbreak.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is monitoring 384 people for TB exposure and helping with testing and treatment, a spokesperson said in a statement.
āWhile this outbreak is larger than normal, the risk remains low for the general public,ā the spokesperson said.
Tuberculosis, which spreads through the air, is caused by a bacterium that typically affects the lungs, but can also impact other parts of the body, such as the brain, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If not treated, it can be fatal.
People can become infected with tuberculosis germs that can live in the body for years without causing symptoms, called inactive, or latent, TB. Without receiving treatment, those people can develop active tuberculosis at any time.
Since 2024, 79 latent infections have been reported in the Kansas City, Kansas, area, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
Four staff from the CDC are on site providing assistance with contact tracing, testing and screening and working with community leaders on health education, an agency spokesperson said.
ETA:
And the antibiotic treatment is dirt cheap so everyone infected will take the full schedule of meds, right? Right?
The treatment may be cheap* but arduous. It takes 4
to 9 months of antibiotics and the side effects are often not minimal.
- For given values of cheap