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Panic spreads as Maine residents are infected with world's deadliest disease
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15069457/maine-tuberculosis-three-cases.html
https://archive.is/k7kIq
Fears are being raised in Maine after three people in the state tested positive for the world's deadliest disease.
The patients were diagnosed with active tuberculosis and there was no connection between them, suggesting each was infected by a different source.
They are in the Greater Portland area, officials said, and work is now underway to identify and isolate their close contacts.
It comes amid an uptick in cases in the US, with America reporting 10,347 infections in 2024, the most recent year available, up eight percent from the year before and the highest tally since 2011 when there were 10,471 cases recorded.
But officials said the risk to the public from the latest infections was low.
The World Health Organization considers tuberculosis to be the deadliest disease in the world because it kills the most people of any disease, claiming about 1.25million lives every year, mostly in developing countries.
The disease has a high fatality rate, killing up to half of patients if left untreated or unvaccinated. That's far above the fatality rate for Covid, below one percent, measles, 10 percent for untreated patients, and Legionnaire's disease, also around 10 percent.
Tuberculosis was effectively a death sentence in the 18th and 19th centuries when there was no cure.
>Most tuberculosis cases in the US are imported or due to migration into the country, the CDC says, with most patients coming from outside America's borders.
Further details on the Maine cases, including their names, ages and exact locations were not revealed.
The state's CDC revealed the infections on Tuesday, and advised residents be aware of symptoms such as a persistent cough that does not ease within three weeks.
The infections were described as active, suggesting bacteria was multiplying in patients' lungs, but when they started was not clear.
https://archive.is/k7kIq
Fears are being raised in Maine after three people in the state tested positive for the world's deadliest disease.
The patients were diagnosed with active tuberculosis and there was no connection between them, suggesting each was infected by a different source.
They are in the Greater Portland area, officials said, and work is now underway to identify and isolate their close contacts.
It comes amid an uptick in cases in the US, with America reporting 10,347 infections in 2024, the most recent year available, up eight percent from the year before and the highest tally since 2011 when there were 10,471 cases recorded.
But officials said the risk to the public from the latest infections was low.
The World Health Organization considers tuberculosis to be the deadliest disease in the world because it kills the most people of any disease, claiming about 1.25million lives every year, mostly in developing countries.
The disease has a high fatality rate, killing up to half of patients if left untreated or unvaccinated. That's far above the fatality rate for Covid, below one percent, measles, 10 percent for untreated patients, and Legionnaire's disease, also around 10 percent.
Tuberculosis was effectively a death sentence in the 18th and 19th centuries when there was no cure.
>Most tuberculosis cases in the US are imported or due to migration into the country, the CDC says, with most patients coming from outside America's borders.
Further details on the Maine cases, including their names, ages and exact locations were not revealed.
The state's CDC revealed the infections on Tuesday, and advised residents be aware of symptoms such as a persistent cough that does not ease within three weeks.
The infections were described as active, suggesting bacteria was multiplying in patients' lungs, but when they started was not clear.