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NYC: TB outbreak among Chinese immigrants in Brooklyn's Sunset Park area

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Source: http://nypost.com/2015/02/27/15-chinese-immigrants-struck-with-tuberculosis-in-nyc/

15 Chinese immigrants struck with tuberculosis in NYC
By Carl Campanile
February 27, 2015 | 1:35pm

Tuberculosis has struck more than a dozen Chinese immigrants with ties to Brooklyn?s Sunset Park over the last 20 months, the city?s Health Department said Friday.

Fifteen cases have been identified since June of 2013, including seven since last September, officials said.

?An outbreak of tuberculosis is occurring among young adults born in China and living in, or linked to, Sunset Park, Brooklyn,? the Health Department said in an alert to medical providers...
 
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