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Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s

Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s.

"Some of you are aware, we have and still have mobilized staff and resources addressing an unprecedented tuberculosis outbreak in one of our counties," Goss told lawmakers. For active patients, after 10 days of taking medications and having three sputum tests, they will generally no longer be able to transmit tuberculosis. "They can go about their lives, they don't have to stay away from people, and they can go back to work, do the things, as long as they continue to take their meds."

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