{"id":8720,"date":"2025-02-11T18:19:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T00:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8720"},"modified":"2025-02-11T18:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T00:19:55","slug":"kansas-city-tuberculosis-outbreak-a-deadly-wake-up-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/02\/11\/kansas-city-tuberculosis-outbreak-a-deadly-wake-up-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Tuberculosis Outbreak: A Deadly Wake-Up Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajmc.com\/view\/kansas-city-tuberculosis-outbreak-a-deadly-wake-up-call\">AJMC<\/a> The Kansas City, Kansas, area is currently&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajmc.com\/view\/kansas-city-tuberculosis-outbreak-highlights-ongoing-public-health-challenge\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">experiencing<\/a>&nbsp;a&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajmc.com\/compendium\/infectious-disease\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tuberculosis<\/a>&nbsp;(TB) outbreak, with 2 deaths, 67 active cases, and 79 latent cases reported so far. This surge comes amid a broader rise in TB cases across the US and globally over the past 3 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview with\u00a0<em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>American Journal of Managed Care<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Michael A. Bernstein, MD, director of pulmonary and critical care at Stamford Health, discusses what is known about the outbreak and addresses common misconceptions about TB as it gains more public attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajmc.com\/view\/kansas-city-tuberculosis-outbreak-a-deadly-wake-up-call\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"kYViNmAr dolVoctYLxLLu K\"><!-- kYViNmAr dolVoctYLxLLu K --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AJMC The Kansas City, Kansas, area is currently&nbsp;experiencing&nbsp;a&nbsp;tuberculosis&nbsp;(TB) outbreak, with 2 deaths, 67 active cases, and 79 latent cases reported so far. This surge comes amid a broader rise in TB cases across the US and globally over the past 3 years. In an interview with\u00a0The\u00a0American Journal of Managed Care\u00ae, Michael A. Bernstein, MD, director [&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":[6,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","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\/8720","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=8720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8721,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720\/revisions\/8721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}