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Fighting a tuberculosis 'flare-up' in rural Alaska
Alex DeMarban | Feb 09, 2012
State and local health officials are working to contain a rise in confirmed and suspected tuberculosis cases in Southwest Alaska, a region where the disease once reached epidemic proportions among Alaska Natives.
Four people have recently been stricken in two villages and the hub city of Bethel, all located in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, said Michael Cooper, the state's tuberculosis program manager. He would not name the villages.
"It's a flare-up, not an outbreak," said Cooper. "We tend to get excited" about increased cases, but the recent rise is not out of the ordinary...
Fighting a tuberculosis 'flare-up' in rural Alaska
Alex DeMarban | Feb 09, 2012
State and local health officials are working to contain a rise in confirmed and suspected tuberculosis cases in Southwest Alaska, a region where the disease once reached epidemic proportions among Alaska Natives.
Four people have recently been stricken in two villages and the hub city of Bethel, all located in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, said Michael Cooper, the state's tuberculosis program manager. He would not name the villages.
"It's a flare-up, not an outbreak," said Cooper. "We tend to get excited" about increased cases, but the recent rise is not out of the ordinary...