Tuberculosis

Screening For Non-Immigrant Visitors To U.S. Not Feasible

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 3rd, 2001

by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Requiring proof of tuberculosis screening before entering the United States would be an unwise diversion of TB resources to a population that represents a minimal threat, says the American Medical Association (AMA).

A literature review, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine and written by members of the AMA's Council on Scientific Affairs, proposed that public health care spending would be better focused on permanent foreign-born residents at least 15 years old, who are far more likely to transmit TB.

"Eliminating TB in the United States will depend significantly on the ability to control it...

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