Tuberculosis
Epidemiology of TB: Updates from CDC studies to be presented at ATS 2007
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, June 5th, 2007
The latest research from two Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) studies looking at the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) in the United States was presented at the American Thoracic Society 2007 International Conference in San Francisco. The studies focus on two groups with higher-than-average rates of TB: foreign-born persons and African Americans living in the southeastern United States.
“We’re doing pretty well all over the United States in eliminating tuberculosis, but among people who are born in a foreign country, the incidence of TB is declining much more slowly,” says Dolly Katz, Ph.D., M.P.H., who presented data from the CDC’s study on the...
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