The 2004 TB rate was the lowest recorded in the United States since national reporting began in 1953. Blacks (8.3)and Asians(20.0) have a higher TB rate than Hispanics(7.5). Since 1993 the TB rate among those foreign born has declined 33.9%.
This is a non-story manipulated to inflame the trailer parks of America.
I don't know about that. TB is epidemic in places like the Phillipenes, Mexico, South America. LEGAL immigrants are screened, Illegals aren't, and we end up paying for them.
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/cida_ind.nsf/0/f7429c8612e9e8da852567c10067bd16?OpenDocument
Is CDC covering up skyrocketing TB rate? Insiders say center trying to 'cook the books,' 'spin the numbers'
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43384 The CDC released a report today portraying a serious TB threat worldwide and a declining disease rate within the U.S. But the CDC, say insiders, is not coming clean on the increasing domestic threat, largely posed by dramatic population increases in recent years by illegal immigrants. More than one-third of the global population is infected with the tuberculosis bacterium, and TB disease remains one of the world's leading causes of disease and death, the CDC says. Each year, 8 million people become ill with TB, and 2 million people die from the disease. In 2004, a total of 14,511 TB cases were reported in the U.S. The overall TB case rate – 4.9 per 100,000 persons – was the lowest rate ever recorded since reporting began in 1953. However, the decline in the case rate from 2003 to 2004 was one of the smallest in more than a decade (3.3 percent compared with an average of 6.8 percent per year), the CDC acknowledged. (so in effect, the infection rate is growing). The agency also said that "despite the nationwide downward trend, TB continues to exact a severe toll on many U.S. communities. Seven states now bear more than half the total burden of TB disease in the U.S. California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Texas account for 59.9 percent of the national case total. The toll continues to be greatest among minority and foreign-born individuals, who consistently have higher rates of TB disease. But CDC sources say the report is a reflection of "political correctness" inside the agency – a political effort to whitewash what some health officials see as an alarming new threat of TB's spread largely by illegal foreign immigrants. "When you acknowledge, as the CDC has, that one-third of the world's population is carrying this bacterium and you admit that we have some 20 million foreigners inside this country largely unaccounted for, you begin to understand the threat," said one G2 Bulletin source. "It's serious. And the facts are being withheld from the American people because of political correctness toward the question of illegal immigration."
Isn't that nice of you to be such a jerk. There is nothing wrong with people living in mobile homes and for you to suggest otherwise is an elitist, ignorant thing to say. They probably have a better home and a better life than you do.
........And the CDC has never been caught in one lie or manipulation of figures!.......Only the UN does that.