Sixty-Nine Percent of U.S. TB Cases in 2017 Were Diagnosed in Foreign-Born Residents

[rangerrebew]

Sixty-Nine Percent of U.S. TB Cases in 2017 Were Diagnosed in Foreign-Born Residents

    by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY
    30 Mar 2018
 

    Sixty-nine percent of all tuberculosis (TB) cases reported in the United States in 2017 were diagnosed in foreign-born residents, according to a report released earlier this month by the Centers for Disease Control.

    This was the highest percentage ever, marking a steady three decade rise from 1986, when only 22 percent of all TB cases reported in the United States were diagnosed in foreign born residents. Last year, in 2016, 68 percent of TB cases were foreign-born.

 

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...orn-residents/

[Concerned]

So TB cases overall are down, TB in native-born residents are down, and TB in foreign-born people are “essentially flat”.  As a result, the percentage of foreign-born TB cases has risen slightly from 68% to 69%.  This sounds like a pretty good news story:  a country with about 325M people had approximately 9,000 cases of TB last year, and TB case counts and rates have declined since 1993.

[thackney]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...orn-residents/

@rangerrebew

The link does not work.

[Concerned]

Here's the link:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/30/69-percent-of-all-u-s-tb-cases-in-2017-were-diagnosed-in-foreign-born-residents/