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on January 10, 2017 in World News

Illinois Confirms Eight Refugees Diagnosed with Active TB Upon Arrival

by Michael Patrick Leahy The Illinois Department of Public Health has confirmed that eight refugees were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB)  “during the initial health screening or within 90 days of the refugee arrival” in the four years between 2012 and 2015. This data was not included in the Reported Tuberculosis in the United States documents published annually by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) between 2012 and 2015. Those reports confirmed 1,565 cases of active TB diagnosed among refugees in the 46 states that reported immigration status upon first arrival among foreign-born residents of the United States diagnosed with active TB. Illinois… View Article

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on January 10, 2017 in World News

‘Extraordinary’ That Trump Took On Democrat, Republican, and Media Establishment

by Adelle Nazarian Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) started off Monday night’s CNN town hall with Chris Cuomo delivering biting words against President-elect Donald Trump, calling him a “pathological liar,” before going on to praise him for winning the presidency when an audience member asked him what he deemed Trump’s “strongest attribute.” “Well, let me – that’s not a hard question for me to answer,” Sanders said: Look, any objective assessment in the last year or a year-and-a-half, or how long it was, will tell you that Donald Trump did something extraordinary. Something that nobody, but nobody, thought that he could do. Trump… View Article

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