The outbreak poses “very low risk to the general public, including the surrounding counties,” the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said.

Public hackles in central Ohio have been raised over the bacterial disease, also referred to as TB, after a high school student in Whitehall tested positive as an unusual outbreak in Kansas ...

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Vitamin D supplementation during TB treatment improves patient symptoms, but does not accelerate the clearance of TB bacteria.

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However, most TB cases in the United States are the type that infects the lungs, Chin-Hong said. The vaccine can also cause a false positive if you get tested for TB, the CDC advised.

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Two TB-related conditions exist: inactive TB and active TB. Kansas health officials said patients who test positive will be screened to see if they have active TB disease or latent TB infection.