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CDC Issues New TB Treatment Guidelines
Date:12/8/2011

ensure that those with latent TB infection receive appropriate evaluation and treatment to prevent their infection from progressing to TB disease and possibly spreading to others," Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, said in the news release.

"It is critical that we accelerate progress against TB in the United States in order to avoid a resurgence of the disease," he added.

The number of people in the United States with TB remains at an all-time low, with just over 11,000 cases reported in 2010. However, about 4 percent of the U.S. population (11 million people) are infected with the TB bacterium. The CDC also noted that foreign-born people and people of color in the United States are disproportionately affected by the illness.

These new guidelines apply only to the United States, CDC officials said. Further research is likely needed before this regimen could be recommended for countries with a high incidence of TB, particularly those that have high rates of HIV and where there's a greater risk of TB re-infection.

More information

The American Lung Association has more about TB.

-- Robert Preidt

SOURCE: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, news release, Dec. 8, 2011


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