Minnesota: Highest Rate of Refugee TB Per Capita, then Nebraska and North Dakota
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by Michael Patrick Leahy9 Jan 201710
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Minnesota has the highest rate of refugee tuberculosis (TB) per capita of any state in the country by a wide margin, with 4.08 cases of active TB diagnosed among refugees for every 100,000 residents in the general population between 2012 and 2015.
Minnesota is followed by Nebraska in the refugee TB per capita rate, where it is 1.26 per 100,000 residents; and North Dakota, where the rate is 1.19 per 100,000 residents.
This data comes from the same four Centers for Disease Control (CDC) annual publications titled Reported Tuberculosis in the United States which Breitbart News reported earlier this month, confirming that 1,565 refugees were diagnosed with TB between 2012 and 2015, more than three times what had been previously reported.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/09/minnesota-highest-rate-refugee-tb-per-capita/
