{"id":6555,"date":"2024-05-07T20:18:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T01:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6555"},"modified":"2024-05-08T09:19:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:19:22","slug":"california-city-declares-a-public-health-emergency-after-tuberculosis-sickens-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/05\/07\/california-city-declares-a-public-health-emergency-after-tuberculosis-sickens-14\/","title":{"rendered":"California city declares a public health emergency after tuberculosis sickens 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/tuberculosis-outbreak-california-city-health-emergency-rcna150881\">NBC News<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City Council of Long Beach, California, is poised to authorize a public health emergency in response to a local outbreak of tuberculosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city&#8217;s health officer, Dr.&nbsp;Anissa Davis, declared the emergency last week, after its health department detected 14 tuberculosis cases at a single-room occupancy hotel. The City Council vote on Tuesday night will serve as the final approval for the declaration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine tuberculosis patients have been hospitalized and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/longbeach.gov\/press-releases\/official-city-of-long-beach-statement-regarding-public-health-emergency-in-response-to-local-tuberculosis-outbreak-risk-to-population-at-large-remains-low\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one has died<\/a>, according to the health department. As of Monday, about 175 people had been exposed to tuberculosis as a result of the outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/longbeach.gov\/press-releases\/official-city-of-long-beach-statement-regarding-public-health-emergency-in-response-to-local-tuberculosis-outbreak-risk-to-population-at-large-remains-low\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">news<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/longbeach.gov\/press-releases\/official-city-of-long-beach-statement-regarding-public-health-emergency-in-response-to-local-tuberculosis-outbreak-risk-to-population-at-large-remains-low\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;release<\/a>&nbsp;last week, the department said that \u201cthe population at risk in this outbreak has significant barriers to care including homelessness and housing insecurity, mental illness, substance use and serious medical comorbidities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department added that it is testing people who were exposed. No new cases have been reported since last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outbreak was reported amid a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/why-tuberculosis-cases-rose-after-decades-decline-rcna82288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">national rise in tuberculosis cases<\/a>, which have increased since 2020 after 27 years of decline. The U.S. recorded\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/wr\/mm7312a4.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">9,615\u00a0active infections last year<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a 16% increase over the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/tuberculosis-outbreak-california-city-health-emergency-rcna150881\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News The City Council of Long Beach, California, is poised to authorize a public health emergency in response to a local outbreak of tuberculosis. The city&#8217;s health officer, Dr.&nbsp;Anissa Davis, declared the emergency last week, after its health department detected 14 tuberculosis cases at a single-room occupancy hotel. The City Council vote on Tuesday [&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":[7,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","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\/6555","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=6555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6556,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions\/6556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}