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Is TB Making a Comback?

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Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia also reported more active TB cases last year than in 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in March.

After two decades of steady decline, the number of active tuberculosis cases in the U.S. inched up last year. Hall’s was one of 9,563 TB cases reported last year, up from 9,406 cases the year before.

The CDC is still trying to determine the reason for the uptick.

http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2016/05/12/is-tuberculosis-making-a-comeback

(Could the reason be the influx of illegal immigrants and refugees into the US?)

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

stars & stripes forever :" Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia also reported more active TB cases last year than in 2014,
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in March."

I find it frustrating to realize that we have this influx of TB, and other exotic and foreign diseases occurring coincidentally to the age of superbugs and drug resistant diseases.
This is commonly called the passing of the 'Golden Age of Antibiotics':

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2536186/Golden-age-antibiotics-ending-say-professor-Research-chief-says-infections-untreatable.html

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

stars & stripes forever :" Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia also reported more active TB cases last year than in 2014,
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in March."

I find it frustrating to realize that we have this influx of TB, and other exotic and foreign diseases occurring coincidentally to the age of superbugs and drug resistant diseases.
This is commonly called the passing of the 'Golden Age of Antibiotics':

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2536186/Golden-age-antibiotics-ending-say-professor-Research-chief-says-infections-untreatable.html

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Sorry about the double entry - T I K