The WHO warned Wednesday that massive funding cuts, especially from the United States, could harm humanitarian efforts fighting tuberculosis around the world.

Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne diseases. Two fired CDC workers had been deployed to Kansas City to help work on a tuberculosis outbreak.

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Pulling out of the World Health Organization and silencing the CDC puts Virginians at risk, Jessica Loring, a nurse specializing in infection prevention, writes in a guest column.

According to the Greene County Sheriff's Office, some Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees had positive skin tests for tuberculosis.

But the relative size of the outbreak is irrelevant. Kansas numbers continue to grow, and Dr. William Schaffner, infectious disease professor at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine, confirmed with Today.com: “It’s a substantial outbreak of tuberculosis.”

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