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Kansas Voters in 'Find Out' Phase as Effects of Anti-Vaccine-Mandate Law Turn Into Historic Tuberculosis Outbreak
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Except we don't typically vaccinate people in the US against TB.
Few healthcare workers even get that particular jab.
More than you'd think. TB has geographic ties, so people in known high-risk areas generally get BCG, especially healthcare workers and people with autoimmune diseases.
The point stands, though. TB can come from unexpected vectors and there is no traditional vaccine offered to the public. Until that happens, it doesn't make as much sense to blame tuberculosis on a state that may also be making boneheaded decisions regarding vaccines in general. Just the ones who would say no when it was offered.
I am now taking a hard look at voluntarily getting this vaccine for sure.
It might be hard to get since it's not commonly used here.
Even the CDC website says that the tuberculosis vaccine is not commonly used in the US.
Yeah, hate to say it but I honestly don’t know if we can trust the current CDC website, considering the current administration is known for manipulating data.
If you're going to be that paranoid and spread early misinformation, at least learn of ways to protect yourself like using the wayback machine or something similar. Guess the CDC is just cooked if one side is trying to shut it down and the other side is saying don't trust it now lol.
This was mostly a joke, but at the very least the data on the CDC site is now stale.
That's fair, but do you live in the US, and have you ever had a TB vaccine? The CDC info jibes with lived experience, so it's unlikely it has been altered (yet) by the Trumpians. It seems short term all they have been able to do is take web sites and pages down. It will take longer to rewrite them.
And Kansas is not a high-risk area.
Yes. I have had every recommended childhood vaccine and get annual flu and COVID vaccines. I have never had a TB vaccine, nor been recommended to get one.
https://www.cdc.gov/tb/vaccines/index.html
A TB outbreak in Kansas is of course a massive concern, but relating it to their vaccine exemption law? Did they outlaw TB testing, because that's something that used to be routinely done for school admission.
I can't recall our GenA kids needing the weird stabby test I had to take when I was a kid but honestly didn't even think about it before now.
I'm a millennial and my college required that test prior to enrolling in classes. That was the first time I took the (rather distressing, tbh, maybe they should have to warned me) skin inflatey test.
I just looked and my college still requires that test. So, might just be a regional thing. Grad school in the same state didn't require the test, so maybe it had to do with staying in the dorms in undergrad?