Medical advances have helped us prevent and cure tuberculosis, but the ancient bacterial disease still kills more humans than any other infectious pathogen. Researchers recently unveiled a device meant to demystify the early stages of TB, including a peculiar delay that often precedes the onset of symptoms. @ tells us more:
Sure, we retarded the #CDC, but it doesn't mean you should act recklessly. If you feel sick and have a fever and are coughing up blood, stay home and get tested for TB. I got immunized in school for TB as a kid. We all need this to be the norm. Immunization saves lives.
Book cover for Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green. Image on cover is a stylized drawing of a green microscope pointing at the viewer. At the end of the microscope you can see germs, presumably tuberculosis, swimming around in the solution on the slide.
More than 60 people are being treated for tuberculosis in the Kansas City area, and there are 79 additional inactive TB infections, according to the state health department. The outbreak began last year and two people have died. While the Kansas health department described the outbreak as the largest in U.S. history since monitoring began in the 1950s, the CDC rebutted that. Here's more from NBC News.