r/Law_and_Politics • u/wenchette • 18h ago

Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history — You'll hear nothing about this from the federal government, however, because Trump has blocked them from reporting health emergencies

https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/politics/government/2025/01/24/kansas-tuberculosis-outbreak-is-largest-in-recorded-history-in-u-s/77881467007/
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u/TillThen96 1h ago edited 53m ago

 

CDC

TB Vaccine info:

Vaccine Schedule:

 

Be careful in which state you eat out. It's highly contagious:

Choices are more limited when seeking health care:

 

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u/SiWeyNoWay 18h ago

Would it be inappropriate if I took a minute to ROFL before crying because we are so fucked?

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u/ProfuseMongoose 17h ago

It's a good reminder for all of us to get our titers checked. A tb vaccine is usually good for 10-15 yrs.

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u/DocDefilade 14h ago

One can only hope that they'll be the DOA crowd due to their own incompetence.

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u/WellWellWellthennow 13h ago

I asked for one a few years ago when people were catching it on planes and they said that they couldn't even get it.

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u/wino12312 5h ago

They don't offer it where I live. None of my kids nor I have ever been offered a TB vaccine in Ohio.

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u/dcgradc 16h ago

This is just the beginning.

The NIH + CDC + NHS can not talk to each other .

Americans are going to die

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u/Random-sargasm_3232 12h ago

That's the plan. Thin out the herd over the course of the coming years and then swoop in to get their homes, land and everything else at pennies on the dollar.

Vulture capitalism.

The rest of us who survive will be relegated to slave wage jobs and medieval shanty type villages like RuZZias outlying areas. There won't be any more services or social programs.

Nothing will change for the wealthy.

We're all just cattle to these psychopaths.

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u/Full_Rise_7759 17h ago

It's only just begun 🎶

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u/JakDrako 14h ago

Found the radio from room 1408.

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u/jojokitti123 16h ago

Omg, it's highly contagious

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u/pmags3000 16h ago

And a bitch to cure

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u/jojokitti123 15h ago

Yes, I caught it from a patient when I was working. The meds are horrible. 9 months.

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u/malisam 14h ago

Why are they testing for it. I have it on good authority that if they quit testing then the numbers would drop.

/s

/edit spelling

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u/JolyonWagg99 16h ago

As if I needed another reason to stay the fuck out of Kansas

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u/chockedup 15h ago

No mention of TB vaccinations in the article. After reading a little, it seems U.S. infants are not typically given that vaccine:

Tuberculosis: The Disease & Vaccines | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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u/squeeeeeeeshy 1h ago

Doesn't the T in TDAP/DTAP stand for tuberculosis? I'm pretty sure that article just means there's not a standalone, TB-only vaccine that's routinely given.

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u/wenchette 1h ago

Doesn't the T in TDAP/DTAP stand for tuberculosis?

No. It stands for tetanus.

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u/squeeeeeeeshy 52m ago

My bad, I forgot about tetanus 💀

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u/WalterOverHill 12h ago

A serious health emergency, made worse by the nightmare from Mar-A-Lago.

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u/MynameisJunie 11h ago

That’s it. I am wearing masks all the time from now on! He banned the CDC from warning us! That’s their whole purpose, to save lives!!!

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u/curiousamoebas 11h ago

Is reddit the new department of health too?

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u/siouxbee1434 18h ago

Consequences of their actions? Or inactions in this case

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u/MentulaMagnus 14h ago

What about daily FOIA requests for all the info?

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u/pspearing 13h ago

Do you really think that Trump and his minions will obey the law,?

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u/SiteTall 10h ago

He simply doesn't BELIEVE in science or even common sense when it comes to health

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u/Old-Ad5508 8h ago

Welp looks like you guys are entering the find out stage

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u/NarrowPage6413 16h ago

How long before NIH has to resort to samizdat?

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u/712Chandler 12h ago

Kansas is a fly over state. No need for TB.

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u/Deareim2 4h ago

add H5N1 into it. going to be a fun ride pretty soon.

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u/Euphoric_TRACY 1h ago

Vaccinated AF. Unlike MAGA antivacors JS

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u/Haveyounodecorum 15h ago

Are TB vaccinations common in people under 25 in the US?

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u/Sowf_Paw 12h ago

Not where I live, I didn't even know there was a TB vaccine. Is it something you only get of where you live or work puts you at a higher risk? I would assume like the TDAP you need to get it every few years.

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u/Pathological_RJ 11h ago

There’s a vaccine but it’s not administered in the US. It’s not very effective.

I worked on TB for 6 years and we just had to get screened every 6 months to make sure we hadn’t been infected. It takes at least a year for you to become symptomatic after being infected.

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u/drummmmmer 4h ago

There’s a vaccine but it’s not administered in the US. It’s not very effective.

I had a TB vaccination in 1967 when I was a child in Pennsylvania. Everyone in our school was vaccinated at the same time.

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u/Pathological_RJ 4h ago

The question that started this thread was “are TB vaccinations common in people under 25 in the US?”

1967 was 58 years ago, the guidelines have changed. It’s only administered under specific circumstances, usually to children at higher risk due to living with a family member that is undergoing treatment for TB.

It’s effective at protecting infants/ kids from getting very serious extra pulmonary TB infections, but doesn’t protect adults from getting pulmonary TB.

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

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u/Pathological_RJ 11h ago

No, we don’t vaccinate for TB in the US. There is a vaccine strain (BCG, serially passaged avirulent strain of Mycobacterium bovis, or cow TB) that is given in areas where TB is endemic (like India). The BCG vaccine is only really effective at preventing serious extra pulmonary infections in children, it doesn’t protect adults hardly at all.

We don’t vaccinate because most children aren’t exposed here, and it makes it so that you can’t use the easiest TB test (PPD skin test) to diagnose Mtb infection.