The Largest Tuberculosis Outbreak in U.S. History is Happening Right Now in Kansas

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a63577552/kansas-tuberculosis-outbreak-america/

41 comments

  2. Good thing this current administration is 100% qualified and up to the task of combatting such a contagious illness. right, right?

  3. Don’t worry, raw milk will protect you.

    And fluoride and vaccines are to blame.

  4. RFK Jr is heading there now to tell them to refuse treatment.

  5. i used to have tuberculosis until one day i poured bleach into my humidifier and now i’m cured 

  7. Oh, good. Just in time for our pandemic response team to turn into a pumpkin thanks to the Idiot-in-Chief.

  8. Fun fact, my mom was conceived in a TB sanatorium in the 50’s. My grandparents met there and did what horny teens do.

  9. Just in time for RFK Jr to make sure it spreads even more.

  10. All sm information is blacked out for all federal pages. So they just won’t know. Oh well.

  11. I encourage those who doubt the threat of tuberculosis to try and catch it just for the sake of owning the libs.

  12. I refuse to be collateral damage to someone’s ignorance and unwillingness to follow basic scientific principals. I survived working with sick people for over 40 years as an RN. I’m not going to have it all negated by a GQP fever dream.

  13. It’s a red state. Majority of them voted for this so

  14. Drink raw milk and sun your nutsack and you’ll be ok.

  15. Oooh bloody handkerchiefs back on the scene. So fashionable.

  16. Sounds fun! I’m sure RFK Jr. is ready to hand out magic crystals to the sides of their heads or some stupid crackpot shit.

  17. Whew, it’s a good thing Trump silenced the CDC. Because the best way to deal with an outbreak is to stick your head in the sand.

    Right? RIGHT?!

  19. If they were big mad about Covid lockdowns…. Wait till they find out what they do to TB patients…

  20. Oh, so THIS is why the CDC has been ordered not to tell us anything. Because it doesn’t fit the narrative of Trump making everything great again.

  21. Such a shame there is no preventative measure people could have taken.

  22. Hey, we all know it will just magically go away on its own, right?

    It will just go down to 15 cases, and then 0.

    There’s no reason to do anything about it at all.

  23. With KC playing in two weeks, I’m guessing the Super Bowl might be a spreader event

  24. Good luck, Kansas.

    I’ve just given you more support than this administration will.

  25. I can hear John Green’s screams from several hundred miles away

  26. If we don’t count I bet its gone by Easter.

    Just stop counting and reporting.

  27. I think when John Green decided to write a book about TB, he would have preferred if the disease itself didn’t decide to ‘help.’

  28. Just wait until republicans take away mandatory treatment for Tb for those who blatantly and ignorantly refuse.

    Thank god I left bedside because I can’t mentally handle another pandemic

  29. In a few months from now when this outbreak gets worse, we’ll see Trump brainstorming live on air again suggesting stupid shit like drinking bleach, blast uv rays into your body, and likely claiming this new outbreak will go away once the weather warms up… What a fucking moron we have running our country

  31. And Trump supporters are spreading the message that it’s illegal migrants causing it. Absolute scumbag monsters.

  32. “**BREAKING:** President Trump issues executive order prohibiting testing for tuberculosis.”

    – Probable near future headline

  34. And the CDC can’t communicate to other agencies. So smart.

  36. I found this on the CDC website. Thank goodness it’s still there!

    https://www.cdc.gov/tb/treatment/index.html

    I don’t know about you, but between bird flu, pneumonia, regular flu, Covid and TB, I am going to start wearing a mask again in public. I don’t trust this administration as far as I can throw them for good information.

  38. Headline is wrong. This is the largest outbreak in the last 75 years since CDC started recording this info.

    There were much larger outbreaks in the 1800’s

    If you want to learn what is currently being done to detect, treat, and prevent the spread of TB I encourage you to go look up some of the info John Green has put out or pre-order his book that comes out in a month.

  39. And just in time for[ John Green’s book “Everything is Tuberculosis”](https://www.johngreenbooks.com/) which is coming out in March. The man is on a mission to eradicate the very curable disease, and while having TB is the US is awful, it highlights how rich (ad competent) countries can address it easily while developing country struggle.

    Hopefully more people become advocates for finally eradicating the disease.

    Let’s hope they can nip this in the bud… but who am I kidding, it is Trump and the US.

    I am not sure if TB epidemic in the US was on my 2025 Bingo Card, but maybe it should be.

  41. If only modern medicine had a way to prevent it. /s

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