Massachusetts is experiencing a 75% increase of multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) since 2015 according to a new report from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. In 2015, 87 percent of the 192 cases of active TB diagnosed in Massachusetts (167 out of 192) were foreign-born, a rate significantly higher than the foreign-born rate across the country that year, which was 66 percent. The CDC did not report how many of those foreign-born cases of MDR-TB were resettled, refugees.
Excerpt From Breitbart:
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health provided no information on how many of the seven cases of MDR TB in 2015 and four cases in 2014 were foreign-born. However, of the 9,421 cases of active diagnosed in the United States in 2014, 91 were classified as MDR. 88 percent of those cases (80 out of 91) were foreign-born.
