Tuberculosis Among Foreign-Born Persons in the United States, 1993-1998

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Tuberculosis Among Foreign-Born Persons in the United States, 1993-1998

Journal of the American Medical Association (www.jama.com) (12/13/00) Vol. 284, No. 22, P. 2894
Talbot, Elizabeth A.; Moore, Marisa; McCray, Eugene; et al.

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the number of tuberculosis (TB) cases among foreign-born persons in the United States rose 2.6 percent between 1993 and 1998. The proportion of U.S. cases that were foreign-born, meanwhile, increased from about 30 percent to 41.6 percent. The researchers note that nearly three-quarters of the foreign-born cases were reported in six states (California, New York, Texas, Florida, New Jersey, and Illinois). The majority of these infections were diagnosed in people from Mexico, the Philippines, Vietnam, India, China, Haiti, and South Korea. The researchers conclude, "Based on extrapolation and assuming that changes in the number of U.S.- born and foreign-born persons with TB continue to occur at the rate observed in 1993-1998, more than half of U.S. cases may occur in foreign-born persons by the year 2002."
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