After decline for 23 years, TB shows increase in the US in 2015 - Health, Technology, Top Stories - The American Bazaar
3-24-16
The deadly airborne disease tuberculosis, after being on the decline
in the U.S. for the past 23 years, showed an uptick in the number of
cases, according to federal data released Thursday. The number of TB cases rose last year and the rate of cases has
leveled off at three per 100,000 people since 2013, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention said in a report, reported The Wall
Street Journal.While the increase in cases was slight—9,563 cases in 2015, compared with 9,406 in 2014—it suggests that progress toward a long-standing national goal of reducing tuberculosis to one case or fewer per million people is off course, TB officials and experts conceded.
“Right now it looks like progress has stalled in moving toward elimination,” said Philip LoBue, director of the CDC’s division of tuberculosis elimination.
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