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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 The findings, which came from analysis of data from the National TB Surveillance System, were published in the March 20 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, published by the CDC.
The authors of the report said that more action is needed to tackle the slowing decline in TB rates and the continuing disparities between minorities and whites and between people born in the United States and those born elsewhere.
Tuberculosis cases had declined steadily in the United States in the three decades from 1953, when there were 84,304 reported cases, to 1985, with 22,201 cases. But the number of cases rose again, by 20 percent, between 1985 and 1992, when 26,673 cases were reported. This led to renewed TB prevention and control efforts during the 1990s, but the average annual decline has slowed since 2000.
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Worldwide, about 2 billion people are infected with TB-causing bacteria. In 2006, about 9.2 million people became ill from TB and 1.7 million died from the disease. March 24 is World TB Day.
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The American Lung Association has more about tuberculosis.
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