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View submission: Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history
Yep, most obvious reason. The only other explanation is someone picked it up on vacation/travels and went deep off the beaten path.
Comment by Izkata at 28/01/2025 at 14:14 UTC
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From an article in 2023 about this same outbreak, sounds most likely to be a latent infection in the parents that went active:
The outbreak involved 13 people across four households in Kansas City and spanned 1 year. While a majority of the seven adults identified were born outside the U.S. in a country that had experienced a multidrug-resistant TB outbreak with the same genotype in 2007-2009, most of the six children were U.S.-born, noted Elizabeth Groenweghe, MPH, of the Unified Government Public Health Department in Kansas City, and colleagues in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report