Two counties in the Kansas City area continue to grapple with what is now a yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis.

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Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 confirmed latent cases.

Common symptoms of active TB include coughing, chest pains, fever, fatigue and coughing up blood or phlegm. The airborne respiratory illness is usually transmitted during prolonged close contact with an infected person.

An outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City area has grown into one of the largest ever recorded in the United States, with dozens of active cases of the infectious disease reported, according to health officials.

The Kansas City area is facing one of the country’s largest outbreaks of tuberculosis in recent years. According to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, as of Jan. 24, there have been 67 confirmed cases of active TB in the state,

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More than 60 people were being treated in the Kansas City area as of Friday, according to the state health department.

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state health official claimed last week.

Kansas Health Department warned that the state was facing the largest tuberculosis outbreak in the history of the US, but the CDC has countered the claim.According to US News, the Kansas State Department of Health and Environment on January 24,

Kansas officials said there's an outbreak of tuberculosis across two counties, calling it the largest in history, but the CDC disagrees.