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JT45242

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11. First of all, I call BS on biggest outbreak given TB deaths in 1800s

Reply to HAB911 (Original post)

Sat Jan 25, 2025, 03:19 PM

Jan 2025

Maybe the mist since we could accurately count them. But given the large number of deaths fewer than 100 cases cannot be possibly larger than the TB outbreaks in the POW camps of the civil war or many other outbreaks historically.

But to say it's the worst since 1900 is likely accurate.

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Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history [View all] HAB911 Jan 2025 OP

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Great, we'll have to be worried about TB sakabatou Jan 2025 #7

Uggh, that Kansas Health offficials felt the need to include this sentence: hlthe2b Jan 2025 #8

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If only MAGAT's could be targeted with this. Sorry, zero empathy for anyone NoMoreRepugs Jan 2025 #10

First of all, I call BS on biggest outbreak given TB deaths in 1800s JT45242 Jan 2025 #11

I dunno, even about that. My mom was a nurse in a TB hospital in Kearney, Nebraska in the1950's. Maru Kitteh Jan 2025 #15

Even by the end of the 1950s, national TB rates were 32.4 per 100,000 muriel_volestrangler Jan 2025 #18

Was puzzled by that, too. We used to have TB tests in Florida in the late 50s, early 60s. allegorical oracle Jan 2025 #19

One is a fatal disease and the other is Tuberculosis. twodogsbarking Jan 2025 #12

I know people whose relatives died from tuberculosis. The actress Vivien Leigh died of allegorical oracle Jan 2025 #20

You win. Relax. twodogsbarking Jan 2025 #21

Not just tuberculosis, MDR-TB. Likely originated in Russian prisons or Dharavi. Maru Kitteh Jan 2025 #13

What we are now undergoing is Social Darwinism. ananda Jan 2025 #14

White Horse Souse blames it on illegals in 3...2..1 superpatriotman Jan 2025 #17