TB is a much more serious disease than Ebola, accounting for 1.3 million deaths worldwide. In 2010, foreign-born persons accounted for 60% of all TB cases diagnosed in the United States, as compared to 47% of all TB cases in 2000. The number of states with at least 50% of TB cases occurring among foreign-born persons has increased from 21 states in 2000 to 33 states and the District of Columbia in 2010. The TB case rate was 1.2 per 100,000 for U.S.-born persons and 15.6 for foreign-born persons, and Asians have the highest rate of all groups in the U.S. Foreign-born Hispanics and Asians together represented 79% of TB cases in foreign-born persons, and accounted for 51% of the national case total. From 2009 through 2013, the top five countries of origin of foreign-born persons with TB were Mexico, the Philippines, India, Vietnam and China (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/factsheets/statistics/TBTrends.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/tb/statistics/reports/2013/pdf/report2013.pdf
As we fret over one more death from Ebola in the U.S., there have been 9,000 from CRE, Carbapenem-resistant Enterobasteriaceae. It's highly lethal for the elderly, debilitated, and children with critical illnesses. There are guidelines to reduce its transmission in hospitals, but few have adopted them. 94% of the cases are related to health care.
http://www.wired.com/2014/07/cre-fivefold/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/31/cre-nightmare-bacteria-spread/13322879/
http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/prevent/top-cdc-recs-prevent-hai.html
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/677157#af1 “Rising Rates of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Community Hospitals: A Mixed-Methods Review of Epidemiology and Microbiology Practices in a Network of Community Hospitals in the Southeastern United States,” Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, vol 32, no.8, Aug. 2014
12 children have now died of a respiratory polio like illness whose numbers are unusually high as thousands more children came across the border than years before. CDC assures us there is no relationship. Just a coincidence.
http://www.cdc.gov/non-polio-enterovirus/outbreaks/EV-D68-outbreaks.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/09/the_invasion_of_enterovirus_evd68.html
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