Friday, March 24, 2023

TB Making A Comeback In US

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." 

2 comments:

  1. Import the third world, become the third world.

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    1. It 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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