https://www.reddit.com/r/kzoo/comments/1ieglm6/tb_investigation_at_kalamazoo_central_high/
created by Dogsarebest-5443 on 31/01/2025 at 14:57 UTC
148 upvotes, 22 top-level comments (showing 22)
Kalamazoo Health Department just issued a press release that a person at Kalamazoo Central High School was recently diagnosed with Active TB. It does state if it was staff or student ( or i missed that info).
Active TB is 'contagious person to person through the air' ( this is how it was stated in the press release).
If you work at, attend, or have children that attend Central, will you be doing anything thing different to protect yourself/family ?
Comment by theal8r at 31/01/2025 at 16:45 UTC
30 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Comment by Ok_Egg_471 at 31/01/2025 at 16:16 UTC
96 upvotes, 2 direct replies
There’s a big outbreak happening in Kansas that of course can’t be reported on because politics. I worry this is how it’s gonna go with a lot of illnesses for the next 4+ years.
Comment by BBQ_Toucher at 31/01/2025 at 15:17 UTC
29 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Heres the link[1] to the recent press release by the County.
1: https://www.kalcounty.com/hcs/mediareleases.php
Comment by journerman69 at 31/01/2025 at 16:42 UTC
12 upvotes, 4 direct replies
Isn’t there a vaccine for that? Didn’t we all get it when we were young? Can you still get TB if you are vaccinated?
Comment by mustardsmayhem at 31/01/2025 at 15:03 UTC
36 upvotes, 4 direct replies
Uh oh. My daughter goes there! I will be keeping an extra eye out on her. I had no idea about this, thank you!!
Comment by BeatlesAndRDR2 at 31/01/2025 at 19:22 UTC
9 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I go to KC. It was a student and the staff told us they haven’t been to school since last Friday. Saw a few people wearing masks but nothing crazy.
Comment by Sheepish_conundrum at 31/01/2025 at 15:20 UTC
55 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Great. I'm sure the next head of health RFK will suggest injecting horse paste in your lungs.
Comment by Dankmane6000 at 31/01/2025 at 21:05 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Lots of stuff out there rn. It's bad, mask up.
Comment by uhhdudeiguess at 01/02/2025 at 12:44 UTC
6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
When this happened in 2013/2014 ( I don’t recall the exact year), they had the city health dept come test everyone who has a class the kid who has it. I ended up having latent tuberculosis, it was found in my lungs but not active in my body. I felt normal. I was a junior at the time. The only downside was taking antibiotics for about 6 months and I cannot take a regular tb test again. I have to get a blood test. I hope this makes some parents feel better, maybe lol. But hopefully they’re testing at school and not relying on parents to go get their kid tested. That might not end well.
Comment by mike-honcho0420 at 31/01/2025 at 19:37 UTC
14 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Surely RFK jr will save us all
Comment by mabhatter at 31/01/2025 at 21:43 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
If this is in a school, it's not too much to jump to the college because lots of people go back and forth. That would be VERY BAD.
We wanted to bring back 1800s... didn't have Consumption on my Bingo card.
Comment by Oranges13 at 31/01/2025 at 15:16 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Freaking heck.. I mean the only good thing that's going to come out of this is that pharmaceutical companies are finally going to give a shit about tuberculosis because it's affecting Americans.
Really sad it had to get this bad 😞
Comment by cmarkin123 at 31/01/2025 at 16:39 UTC
2 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Crazy thing, but I swear I remember reading that almost half the world’s population has inactive TB residing in their lungs while 7-9% of them go active.
Can’t remember where or when I read it, so must have been a dream.
Comment by InThisEconomyReally at 31/01/2025 at 18:43 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Polio is next 😔
Comment by Informal_Shape_5421 at 01/02/2025 at 03:47 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
We got the email just after 5 saying there was an exposure, but my kid doesn’t go to K-Central. I guess we will have to wait till Monday to find out what’s up.
Comment by Heavy-Case-1671 at 03/02/2025 at 17:36 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Is there anymore information about the one case of TB that someone reported here last week? Since it can’t be reported anywhere else seems like word of mouth here is going to be necessary.
Comment by Teelaire at 31/01/2025 at 22:14 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
My mom had that shit in the 70s. Wasn't a big deal. I remember going through the old tb center on top of west main hill in the early 2000s. So scary but fun. Glad they demolished it though. That was super dangerous. The things we do in our teens. Yikes.
Comment by theal8r at 31/01/2025 at 16:55 UTC
0 upvotes, 0 direct replies
They won't say. Health info is private.
Comment by BendtnerOrBust at 31/01/2025 at 19:54 UTC
0 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Lovely. My grandma is immunocompromised with a blood cancer, and lives at the Story Pointe at Bronson Place.
Comment by [deleted] at 31/01/2025 at 15:19 UTC
-26 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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Comment by Sage-Advisor2 at 01/02/2025 at 06:06 UTC
-2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Go through the comments, find and read mine on why you should be deeply uneasy over this sudden rise in clustered cases in Wyandotte Coubty Kansas.
Hint on why you should be quaking in your boots. The location is close to the outbreak point, in Fort Riley, of the dreaded Spanish Flu.
The Whys, Wherefores and Hows of pathigen-host microbial molecular ecology, that is my particular superpower.
Red Flag Warnings ahead.
Comment by Gxcii1 at 31/01/2025 at 16:31 UTC
-12 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Can someone send a news article or a reliable source about this information besides Reddit.
