Epidemiology

Global Effort Needed Before TB is Eliminated in US

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 11th, 1997

It will be impossible to eliminate tuberculosis in the United States without addressing the disease on a global level, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

"The numbers of immigrants from countries with high prevalence of TB have continuously increased during the last 15 years in the United States," Patrick L.F. Zuber and colleagues from the CDC's Division of Tuberculosis Elimination wrote ("Long-Term Risk of Tuberculosis Among Foreign-Born Persons in the United States," Journal of the American Medical Association, July 23/30, 1997;278(4):304-308). "As a result, the number of long-term residents with latent...

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