The Daily Mail reports: "Tuberculosis makes a comeback in the US with children most at risk, CDC warns." The article relates that TB rates had declined from 1993 to 2020 to a low of 2.2 cases per 100,000 persons, but has since started climbing. Per the article, "[t]he CDC reported 8,300 new TB cases in America last year. This is up from 7,874 the year prior, a 29 percent increase." It further noted that "[y]oung people were affected most, with cases among people 15 to 24 increasing 23 percent, the CDC said in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report." Also, "[a]lmost three-quarters of all new TB cases in the US in 2022 were detected in people who were not born in the country."
Import the third world, become the third world.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly doesn't help us with eradicating diseases in the U.S. if we keep importing them. I understand that major U.S. cities are now monitoring for polio--a disease that had been eradicated in the U.S. until our elites decided we needed more diversity.
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