On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, announced that 2023 saw a spike in the number of diagnosed tuberculosis cases in the United States.
The number of U.S. tuberculosis cases in 2023 was the highest in a decade, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced.
The CDC said on its website Thursday that "Overall, cases increased from 8,320 in 2022 to 9,615 in 2023, an increase of 1,295 cases" "The rate also increased from 2.5 per 100,000 persons in 2022 to 2.9 in 2023," it added, noting that numbers were up among all age groups.
CDC officials expected TB numbers would rise, but the 2023 count "Was a little more than was expected," Dr. Philip LoBue, director of the agency's Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, told The Associated Press.
Concurs, Says He's Manipulating Numbers Advertisement Gallup: Immigration, 'Poor Leadership' Top Issues for Americans The CDC goes on to say: "Although TB incidence in the United States is among the lowest in the world and most U.S. residents are at minimal risk, TB continues to cause substantial global morbidity and mortality," the CDC says, calling it "One of the world's leading infectious disease killers." Tuberculosis has vexed mankind since there has been mankind to be troubled by it; historical figures from Elizabeth Barret Browning to John Harvard to John Henry "Doc" Holliday have perished from the "Consumption." It's still a problem over much of the globe.
The top five nations for tuberculosis cases listed in the most recent report are Cambodia, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh, North Korea, and Pakistan, with Russia and China coming in at the top ten.
Tuberculosis has killed millions throughout human history, and the CDC again warns us that there are strains of tuberculosis that are resistant to a range of antibiotics normally used to treat the disease.
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