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Four Killed by outbreak of Tuberculosis in Puerto Rico
San Juan, Mar 24 (Prensa Latina) An outbreak of tuberculosis has led to this day in Puerto Rico at least four deaths, so a team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, will travel to the island to investigate the situation. The health authorities in this Caribbean island have been recognized as an extraordinary proceeding the visit of U.S. experts, who seek to determine how it has handled the problem. Health Minister, Lorenzo Gonz?lez, admitted he is the first time requesting the presence of experts from the CDC to address the outbreak of tuberculosis emerged about a month ago. not stated ages of the victims. recently met several cases of infection in the Medical Center in the suburb of the capital of Rio stones. The problem arose now, he said, in a drug rehabilitation center in the neighboring municipality of Trujillo Alto, which has killed four people, daily newspaper El Nuevo Dia in 2010 one person died in the eastern town of Humacao to cause another outbreak of tuberculosis that was investigated by CDC staff in Atlanta, which is headquartered in the state of Georgia. At that time it was thought that the infectious disease was eradicated in the country.