In 2016, TB rose in America for the first time in 23 years with 29 States including the District of Columbia reporting increases in TB cases
https://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/factsheets/statistics/tbtrends.htm
Foreign born individuals represented the majority of the reported TB cases accounting for 68 % of reported TB cases in 2017..
Refugee populations already resettled in the US had disporortionately high rates of latent TB that ranged from 18% in Arizona to 46 % in San Diego.
US Children born to foreign born parents were 6 times more likely to have TB than US born chilldren and foregn born children were 32 times more likely to have TB than US Born chilldren.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5135007/
The CDC has no data on latent TB cases among illegal Immigrants because they're not evaluated before entering the Country. 80% of active TB cases in the US were attributed to individuals carrying latent TB
Four years after the United States pledged to help the world fight infectious-disease epidemics such as Ebola, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is dramatically downsizing its epidemic prevention activities in 39 out of 49 countries because money is running out, U.S. government officials said.
The CDC programs, part of a global health security initiative, train front-line workers in outbreak detection and work to strengthen laboratory and emergency response systems in countries where disease risks are greatest. The goal is to stop future outbreaks at their source.
Most of the funding comes from a one-time, five-year emergency package that Congress approved to respond to the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa. About $600 million was awarded to the CDC to help countries prevent infectious-disease threats from becoming epidemics. That money is slated to run out by September 2019. Despite statements from President Trump and senior administration officials affirming the importance of controlling outbreaks, officials and global infectious-disease experts are not anticipating that the administration will budget additional resources.
Two weeks ago, the CDC began notifying staffers and officials abroad about its plan to downsize these activities, because officials assume there will be “no new resources,” said a senior government official speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss budget matters. Notice is being given now to CDC country directors “as the very first phase of a transition,” the official said. There is a need for “forward planning,” the official said, to accommodate longer advance notice for staffers and for leases and property agreements. The downsizing decision was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...utbreak/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ecc49dc8d9a8
Will Trump work to keep the CDC adequately funded so it can help control outbreaks? My money is on "not likely."
Foreign born individuals represented 66% of the known active cases of TB in 2011, so this was an issue long before Trump entered into office
The majority of active cases of TB in the US started as latent cases. Carriers of latent TB don't exibit symptoms and many don't know now they have it until it progresses into active TB
Obama's catch and release program allowed unvetted Immigrant's into the US and when you consider the sheer number of illegal immigrants it's no wonder why we're seeing a resurgence of these deadly diseases
If the Trump administration even suggested that we start testing foreign born individuals, the MSM and the Democrats would call him a " racist "
In 2016, TB rose in America for the first time in 23 years with 29 States including the District of Columbia reporting increases in TB cases
I never suggested that contagious diseases didn't exist before Trump, else the CDC wouldn't have existed before Trump. Do you think Trump should work to keep CDC properly funded before they run out of money?
The CDC is doing their jobs, which is working with local Governments to track known cases of TB and promote preparedness and prevention initiaves
The actual testing would be done at a local level, and good luck with getting people that are asymptomatic to show up for free TB test
Trump has done more to address this issue than Obama ever did by trying to secure our borders and stop the influx of illegal immigrants that carry latent TB into the US.
You people attack Trump for it, so don't pretend you give a rats ass about the resurgence of a disease, that according to the World Health Organization in 2015 surpassed AIDS as the most deadliest infectious disease in the world.
Yes, the CDC is doing the best job they can with the funding they have, which is due to run out in 2019. Do you think Trump will work to keep them adequately funded, or do you think he will allow the CDC to continue cutting manpower?
In 2016, TB rose in America for the first time in 23 years with 29 States including the District of Columbia reporting increases in TB cases
https://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/factsheets/statistics/tbtrends.htm
Foreign born individuals represented the majority of the reported TB cases accounting for 68 % of reported TB cases in 2017..
Refugee populations already resettled in the US had disporortionately high rates of latent TB that ranged from 18% in Arizona to 46 % in San Diego.
US Children born to foreign born parents were 6 times more likely to have TB than US born chilldren and foregn born children were 32 times more likely to have TB than US Born chilldren.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5135007/
The CDC has no data on latent TB cases among illegal Immigrants because they're not evaluated before entering the Country. 80% of active TB cases in the US were attributed to individuals carrying latent TB
Your first link shows updated 2017 stats, which demonstrated a decline from both 2016 and 2015.
Sounds like you need to innoculate people more.
Actually, though, the US has such a low rate of TB it seems like a quibble. Seems like something someone would pile onto a list with other reasons to not allow any immigration. Is that why you brought up such an obscure nothingburger? To make people afraid of immigration?
In 2016, TB rose in America for the first time in 23 years with 29 States including the District of Columbia reporting increases in TB cases
https://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/factsheets/statistics/tbtrends.htm
Foreign born individuals represented the majority of the reported TB cases accounting for 68 % of reported TB cases in 2017..
Refugee populations already resettled in the US had disporortionately high rates of latent TB that ranged from 18% in Arizona to 46 % in San Diego.
US Children born to foreign born parents were 6 times more likely to have TB than US born chilldren and foregn born children were 32 times more likely to have TB than US Born chilldren.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5135007/
The CDC has no data on latent TB cases among illegal Immigrants because they're not evaluated before entering the Country. 80% of active TB cases in the US were attributed to individuals carrying latent TB
I'm thrilled that you have interest in infectious diseases and eradication programs. I do too.Carriers of latent TB are walking talking time bombs, and there's more in this Country now than ever before.
Carriers of latent TB are walking talking time bombs, and there's more in this Country now than ever before.
One might argue that these facts offer good reason to let them all in and inoculate or treat them, for the benefit of Public Health.
In 2016, TB rose in America for the first time in 23 years with 29 States including the District of Columbia reporting increases in TB cases
https://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/factsheets/statistics/tbtrends.htm
Foreign born individuals represented the majority of the reported TB cases accounting for 68 % of reported TB cases in 2017..
Refugee populations already resettled in the US had disporortionately high rates of latent TB that ranged from 18% in Arizona to 46 % in San Diego.
US Children born to foreign born parents were 6 times more likely to have TB than US born chilldren and foregn born children were 32 times more likely to have TB than US Born chilldren.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5135007/
The CDC has no data on latent TB cases among illegal Immigrants because they're not evaluated before entering the Country. 80% of active TB cases in the US were attributed to individuals carrying latent TB
I'm thrilled that you have interest in infectious diseases and eradication programs. I do too.
However the fact of the matter is that TB is not a massive top priority for eradication within the United States. Like you've indicated, latent TB infections are incredibly common and affect billions of people worldwide. In the USA that is foreign-born populations, certainly, but it is also older generations and those who travel (like me). It is similar to how 10-15% of American-born Baby Boomers (1945-65) have Hepatitis C, but do not know that they do.
Meaning it would be dumb to screen immigrants for TB; just in the same as it would be crazy to screen immigrants for Hepatitis C. These latent infections are very common, and there's little pay-off in spending gobs of money trying to find and eliminate latent cases ... especially when potentially up to 10% Americans already have the infections.
On the other hand WHO does label TB infections as a grave threat, because of the impact that TB has on countries with poor health infrastructures. That is primarily central African and East/Central Asian nations. TB does not pose a threat to our health systems, because we have the capacity and drug availability to handle active TB cases. (Rather the threat that we have to face is where latent TB converts in populations with compromised immune systems (elderly, HIV+, etc.))
There were far more latent TB and active TB cases in the 50s-70s when modern diagnostics and treatments were not available.
Look at your links.
Edit: And it's the flu (influenza virus) that is infectious disease with the largest impact on morbidity and financial costs in the United States. Not TB.
There is no such thing as a effective TB inoculation or vaccine.
On a practical level I think you're generally correct, but there is this. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/tb/index.html
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