{"id":9046,"date":"2025-03-25T19:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9046"},"modified":"2025-03-25T19:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:43:17","slug":"tuberculosis-was-once-a-disease-in-decline-but-a-resurgence-in-cases-has-health-officials-puzzled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/25\/tuberculosis-was-once-a-disease-in-decline-but-a-resurgence-in-cases-has-health-officials-puzzled\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuberculosis was once a disease in decline, but a resurgence in cases has health officials puzzled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/health\/tuberculosis-was-once-a-disease-in-decline-but-a-resurgence-in-cases-has-health-officials-puzzled\">PBS Newshour<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB \u2013 a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough \u2013 began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kdhe.ks.gov\/2242\/Tuberculosis-Outbreaks\">continues as of early March 2025<\/a>. To date, 147 people have been reportedly diagnosed with TB in the outbreak, with 67 becoming ill. The remaining 80 people diagnosed with TB in Kansas contracted the illness but showed no symptoms, which is called a latent infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TB is the leading infectious cause of death around the world, outpaced only by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/tuberculosis\">COVID-19 during the first three years of the pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Conversation asked microbiologists&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=zEgCkh0AAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Karen Dobos<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=7ZdujPQAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Marcela Henao-Tamayo<\/a>, both from Colorado State University, to explain why this ancient disease seems to be making a comeback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/health\/tuberculosis-was-once-a-disease-in-decline-but-a-resurgence-in-cases-has-health-officials-puzzled\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"WrjFe  hKuQ SEPd  o\">WrjFe  hKuQ SEPd  o<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBS Newshour An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB \u2013 a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough \u2013 began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties and&nbsp;continues as of early March 2025. To date, 147 people have been reportedly diagnosed with TB in the outbreak, with 67 becoming [&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-9046","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\/9046","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=9046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9047,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9046\/revisions\/9047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}