After decline for 23 years, TB shows increase in the US in 2015 - Health, Technology, Top Stories - The American Bazaar
3-24-16

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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