Tuberculosis has been in the news lately because of the story concerning the man with “extensively drug resistant” tuberculosis (XDR TB) who has been quarantined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
The National Center for Health Statistics does not track tuberculosis cases. That is done by the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention. An online database of TB cases can be accessed here.
We do track deaths from tuberculosis, XDR and otherwise.
1999 1119
2000 901
2001 875
2002 892
2003 791
2004 739
Reported cases of tuberculosis can be found here.
Links to various federal and state regulations governing the quarantine of patients are here.
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