A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in the Kansas City, Kansas, area has left at least two people dead and sparking claims that it is the worst such episode in U.S. history.
Some Kansas health officials called the outbreak “the largest documented outbreak in U.S. history” since the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began counting TB cases in the 1950s. However, the CDC has disputed that claim.
A spokesperson for the CDC told The Epoch Times on Wednesday that the Kansas outbreak is not the largest in U.S. history,” noting that an outbreak in Georgia between 2015 and 2017 resulted in “more than 170 cases of TB disease and over 400 cases of inactive TB.”…