{"id":10278,"date":"2025-09-10T16:32:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10278"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:32:29","slug":"five-things-to-know-about-tuberculosis-as-it-surfaces-in-maine-and-north-carolina-who-is-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/10\/five-things-to-know-about-tuberculosis-as-it-surfaces-in-maine-and-north-carolina-who-is-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Five things to know about tuberculosis as it surfaces in Maine and North Carolina. Who is at risk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.northeastern.edu\/2025\/09\/10\/tuberculosis-cases-maine-north-carolina-what-to-know\/\">Northeastern News<\/a> One of the world\u2019s most deadly infectious diseases, tuberculosis requires months of treatment. Tuberculosis, one of the world\u2019s most deadly infectious diseases, has been reported in a handful of cases in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/three-active-tuberculosis-cases-reported-maine-deadly-disease-continues-tick-country\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Maine, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maine<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/post\/wake-county-health-alert-nc-department-human-services-confirms-case-tuberculosis-raleigh-high-school\/17765967\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"North Carolina, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">North Carolina<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/health-and-medicine\/article311665899.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"California, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California<\/a>&nbsp;in recent weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Less transmissible than other respiratory illnesses such as the flu and COVID-19, tuberculosis is curable with up to nine months of antibiotic treatment for active cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Northeastern University infectious disease and global health experts\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bouve.northeastern.edu\/directory\/brandon-dionne\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Brandon Dionne, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brandon Dionne<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bouve.northeastern.edu\/directory\/larry-han\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Larry Han, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Larry Han<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bouve.northeastern.edu\/directory\/tamara-jimah\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Tamara Jimah, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tamara Jimah<\/a>\u00a0explain what causes tuberculosis, how it spreads and why it requires months of medication to fully eradicate it.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trends in case counts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While tuberculosis has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/tb-surveillance-report-2023\/summary\/national.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"trending generally downward since 1993, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trending generally downward since 1993<\/a>, when the U.S. had more than 25,000 cases, recent years have seen an upward blip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Case counts surged&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/tb-surveillance-report-2023\/summary\/national.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"15.6%, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">15.6%<\/a>&nbsp;from 2022 to 2023, going from 8,332 to 9,633 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A provisional&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/tb-data\/2024-provisional\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"report from the CDC released in March, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report from the CDC released in March<\/a>&nbsp;says cases continued to increase into 2024, climbing 8% to 10,347 cases in one year.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"MI d TLFQjJtcNW dp\">MI d TLFQjJtcNW dp<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northeastern News One of the world\u2019s most deadly infectious diseases, tuberculosis requires months of treatment. Tuberculosis, one of the world\u2019s most deadly infectious diseases, has been reported in a handful of cases in&nbsp;Maine,&nbsp;North Carolina&nbsp;and&nbsp;California&nbsp;in recent weeks. Less transmissible than other respiratory illnesses such as the flu and COVID-19, tuberculosis is curable with up to nine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10279,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278\/revisions\/10279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}