on October 18, 2016 in World News
The Ticking Time Bomb of Latent TB Infection Among Sub-Saharan Refugees in Minnesota
by Michael Patrick Leahy Extraordinarily high levels of latent TB infection among Sub-Saharan refugees who have arrived in Minnesota during the past decade appear to be the ticking time bomb that has exploded into 296 cases of active TB diagnosed in the state among refugees in the past five years. The majority of those cases of active TB among refugees, 161, are Somali-born. Between 2004, when the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) first began publicly reporting this data, and 2010, the latent TB infection (LTBI) rate among the more than 11,000 refugees from Sub-Saharan Africa (almost all from Somalia) resettled in Minnesota… View Article
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