Correctional Health

Treatment in prison can prevent disease outside, says U.S. Surgeon General

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, February 3rd, 2004

Cooperation between its health department and prison system has helped Mississippi do something unique: steadily reduce tuberculosis cases for more than a decade, a federal official said.

"Mississippi is the only state to have a decline in tuberculosis cases every year," said Dr. Ed Thompson, deputy director for public health services at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The state's TB rate was far above the national average in the late 1980s, Thompson, Mississippi's state health officer until mid-2002, told the American Correctional Association (ACA) meeting in New Orleans.

But by 2001, he said, it had...

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