Public health officials in Kansas and from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are “working together to mitigate the risk of TB in the community and ensure the safety of all individuals”, Jill Bronaugh, communications director for the Kansas department of health and environment, said in a statement.
“You can think of TB outbreaks like a canary in the coalmine of our public health infrastructure,” said David Dowdy, professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Kansas is experiencing one of the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks ever recorded in the US, as public health powers at the state and federal level have been greatly curtailed.
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But what really causes TB outbreaks is the inability for public health professionals to respond, Dowdy said.
