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.

"More than 80% of TB disease cases in the United States result from longstanding, untreated latent TB infection," TB said. According to the World Health Organization, about half of all people with TB can be found in eight countries: Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines and South Africa.

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

The outbreak started last January. Kansas health officials say numbers are trending downward, but they still expect to find more cases.

Kansas health officials are fighting the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in U.S. history, with 67 confirmed cases

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has said the risk to the general public in surrounding counties remains “very low.”

Most tuberculosis cases in Kansas have been in Wyandotte County in the northeast part of the state, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The agency said they hope to get

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