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Six refugees in Wisconsin were diagnosed with multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) in 2014 and 2015, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. As Breitbart News reported previously, twenty-one additional refugees in Wisconsin were diagnosed with active TB during the same time period, making the Badger State the refugee TB capital of the country, at least among the handful of states that have so far reported that data. Other states that have reported active TB among refugees include Louisiana (21), Vermont (17), Colorado (16), Florida (11), Kentucky (9 in one county), Idaho (7), Indiana (4), and North Dakota (4...

On Friday, Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, along with Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ) and Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ), sent a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson and ICE Deputy Assistant Secretary Saldaña warning them not to release an illegal immigrant with drug-resistant tuberculosis into the general public. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/03/exclusive-illegal-immigrant-with-drug-resistant-tb-to-be-released-into-us-say-congressional-leaders/

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A new automated test for drug-resistant tuberculosis gives accurate results in two hours instead of four to eight weeks, scientists said last week, and public health officials greeted the news enthusiastically, saying it could greatly speed up diagnosis. In the new test, known as Xpert MTB/RIF, a technician deposits a sputum sample in a cartridge, which is inserted into a machine. According to a study published online by The New England Journal of Medicine, the test is 98 percent accurate when compared with positive results from the old method — examination of sputum by a trained microscopist. It was only...

A new test that can detect multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis in two days instead of the standard two to three months promises to help significantly improve treatment and prevent the spread of the airborne infection, the World Health Organization said on Monday. Multiple-drug-resistant TB, or MDR-TB, is a growing public health problem in the world. Five percent of new TB cases are resistant to first-line drugs. That is 450,000 of the nine million new TB cases that are detected each year, the W.H.O. says. In the United States, the prevalence of drug-resistant tuberculosis among foreign-born TB patients has been about 1.5 percent,...

An attorney for a Phoenix man locked up in a hospital jail ward and treated like an inmate says her client has left the country. Doctors ruled recently that Robert Daniels was no longer contagious with tuberculosis after he underwent lung surgery while being treated at Denver's National Jewish Medical and Research Center. He had been living in a Phoenix-area motel under monitoring by Maricopa County Public Health officials for the past few weeks. Attorney Linda Cosme said Daniels sent her an e-mail from Moscow after arriving there on a flight Sunday. "He apologized," Cosme said. "Essentially, he could not...

A man diagnosed with a rare strain of tuberculosis will be flown to Denver for treatment at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center. This morning, officials at Denver’s National Jewish Medical and Research Center weren’t sure when the now world-famous TB patient would arrive for treatment. "I think they’re still figuring out how he’s going to get here," said hospital spokesman William Allstetter. The unidentified patient was transferred from New York to Atlanta on a CDC airplane. Allstetter stressed that National Jewish, which is world renown for treatment of respiratory and immune disorders, is well-prepared to handle the case....

The number of cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is increasing in the United States, as is the fraction of those cases that is resistant to at least five antimicrobial drugs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that there were 128 cases of multidrug-resistant TB in the United States in 2004, up from 113 the year before. This is the first increase in a decade. In addition, the proportion of hard-to-treat cases that are "extensively drug resistant" rose from 3.9 percent in the 1993-1996 period to 4.5 percent during 2001-2004. "It is a modest increase, but it is a movement...

E-mail Author Send to a Friend <% printurl = Request.ServerVariables("URL")%> Print Version March 22, 2004, 9:07 a.m. Resistance Is DeadlyAnother threat to Europe? By Nick Schulz As if Europe didn't have enough to worry about these days with terrorist attacks and concerns over wobbly-kneed democracies, a new survey released earlier this month by the World Health Organization has found that there are 300,000 new cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis a year in the world, and 79 percent of them are "superstrains," meaning they are resistant to our best currently available treatments. The BBC reported that these developments "pose a major...

There may be as many as 300,000 new cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis a year in the world, and 79 percent of them are "superstrains," resistant to any three of the four first-line drugs, a World Health Organization survey has found. Patients in the former Soviet bloc countries are 10 times as likely to have drug-resistant strains as those elsewhere in the world, the survey said. The researchers said the drug-resistance problem might be much bigger than they could measure, particularly in countries like India and China, where they had surveyed only a few areas, and in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nigeria and...