{"id":37274,"date":"2025-09-09T23:21:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=37274"},"modified":"2025-09-09T23:21:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:21:31","slug":"panic-spreads-as-maine-residents-are-infected-with-worlds-deadliest-disease-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=37274","title":{"rendered":"Panic spreads as Maine residents are infected with world&#8217;s deadliest disease &#8211; Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Health fears are growing in Maine after <strong>three residents tested positive for tuberculosis<\/strong>, the world\u2019s deadliest disease. Officials confirmed the patients are from the Greater Portland area, with no links between them, suggesting separate sources of infection.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has seen a steady rise in tuberculosis. More than <strong>10,000 cases were reported in 2024<\/strong>, the highest since 2011. Still, experts stress the risk to the general public remains low. <em>\u201cThe vast majority of people do not need to worry,\u201d<\/em> said Dr. Dora Anne Mills of MaineHealth.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><\/figure>\n<p>Tuberculosis is highly dangerous if untreated, killing nearly half of patients. The World Health Organization says it claims <strong>1.25 million lives worldwide each year<\/strong>. Symptoms include a cough lasting more than three weeks, chest pain, weight loss, fever, and night sweats.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike flu or Covid, tuberculosis spreads only through <strong>close, prolonged contact<\/strong> with an infected person. Doctors can treat it with antibiotics, and vaccines help prevent infection. <em>\u201cIt\u2019s not spread through casual contact like shaking hands,\u201d<\/em> Mills explained.<\/p>\n<p>This news is a strong reminder: stay alert to symptoms, protect loved ones, and discuss\u2014should vaccines be more widely offered in the U.S.?<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1599122\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health fears are growing in Maine after three residents tested positive for tuberculosis, the world\u2019s deadliest disease. Officials confirmed the patients are from the Greater Portland area, with no links &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37276,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37274\/revisions\/37276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}