Virginia does not note refugee status in records on active Tuberculosis cases diagnosed in the state; 44 other states do!

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Virginia does not note refugee status in records on active Tuberculosis cases diagnosed in the state; 44 other states do!

Posted by Ann Corcoran on January 6, 2017
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WTH! Too many people in US STILL have TB! Well, gee, that might be because we keep bringing in new cases!

Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart continued his excellent series of investigative reports on the incidence of active TB in the US refugee population with this report from Virginia.  Yesterday we told you about two other Leahy articles on TB in refugees earlier this week, see here.

Leahy on this Virginia revelation:

The state of Virginia refuses to track the number of refugees it resettles who are diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB).

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… the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) does not think it should be a priority to track foreign-born TB cases by category, as do 44 states who have provided the CDC with that data since 2012 (Tennessee became the 45th state to do so in 2014) in its annual Report on Tuberculosis in the United States.

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/01/06/virginia-does-not-note-refugee-status-in-records-on-active-tuberculosis-cases-diagnosed-in-the-state-44-other-states-do/

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Based on HIPAA laws, would the doctors be allowed to release that data to the State and/or would the State be allowed to release that data in public filings if they had it?   From the little I understand from HIPAA laws, if it was a contagious outbreak, the doctors would be allowed to notify the CDC, but they couldn't just release private patient data to just anyone.