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Drug-resistant TB on the rise at the U.S. border, Emory professor says
July 10, 2014
Tuberculosis is on the decline throughout much of the United States, but the opposite is happening along the border with Mexico in the Mexican- and Latin American-born population, says Emory law professor and immigration expert Polly Price. In fact, two-thirds of all TB cases in this country are found in foreign-born people. With the tens of thousands of
"Most alarming is the increase in the number of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis patients on both sides of the border," says Price, who is currently studying the problem as a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar-in-Residence in public health law...
Drug-resistant TB on the rise at the U.S. border, Emory professor says
July 10, 2014
Tuberculosis is on the decline throughout much of the United States, but the opposite is happening along the border with Mexico in the Mexican- and Latin American-born population, says Emory law professor and immigration expert Polly Price. In fact, two-thirds of all TB cases in this country are found in foreign-born people. With the tens of thousands of
"Most alarming is the increase in the number of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis patients on both sides of the border," says Price, who is currently studying the problem as a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar-in-Residence in public health law...