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Eighty-Two Percent of TB Cases in Nebraska Are Foreign-Born

by Michael Patrick Leahy Eighty-two percent of the active tuberculosis (TB) cases diagnosed in Nebraska in 2014, that’s 31 out of 38, were foreign-born, according to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. Only six percent of the 1.9 million residents of the Cornhusker State are foreign-born. 2014’s 38 active TB cases represented an 80 percent increase in active TB cases in the state in one year, up from 21 in 2013. The number of U.S. born cases of active TB in the state actually declined from 8 in 2013 to 7 in 2014. But the number of foreign-born cases… View Article