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Twenty-One Refugees with Active TB Sent to Louisiana Since 2011
by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY17 Jun 201650
Twenty-one of the 1,579 refugees sent by the federal government to Louisiana between 2011 and 2015 developed active tuberculosis (TB) within one year of their arrival, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals tells Breitbart News.
Louisiana now has the dubious distinction as the state with the highest reported number of recently resettled refugees with active TB...
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Only 66 percent of the 1,579 refugees sent to Louisiana during this five year period, or 1,043, completed domestic medical screenings within 90 days of their arrival. The Louisiana Department of Health did not have information on the number of this group who tested positive for LTBI.
However, the 21 cases of active TB were diagnosed from among this group.
It is not known how many of the 536 refugees, or 34 percent of the total, sent to Louisiana during this five year period who did not participate in the domestic medical screening, may have gone on to develop active TB.
273 of the 1,579 refugees who arrived between 2011 and 2015 were already flagged in their overseas medical screening as having been diagnosed with ?TB, clinically active, not infectious? (Risk Class B1), latent TB infection (LTBI) (Risk Class B2), or had recent contact with someone who had active TB (Risk Class B3).
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by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY17 Jun 201650
Twenty-one of the 1,579 refugees sent by the federal government to Louisiana between 2011 and 2015 developed active tuberculosis (TB) within one year of their arrival, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals tells Breitbart News.
Louisiana now has the dubious distinction as the state with the highest reported number of recently resettled refugees with active TB...
...
Only 66 percent of the 1,579 refugees sent to Louisiana during this five year period, or 1,043, completed domestic medical screenings within 90 days of their arrival. The Louisiana Department of Health did not have information on the number of this group who tested positive for LTBI.
However, the 21 cases of active TB were diagnosed from among this group.
It is not known how many of the 536 refugees, or 34 percent of the total, sent to Louisiana during this five year period who did not participate in the domestic medical screening, may have gone on to develop active TB.
273 of the 1,579 refugees who arrived between 2011 and 2015 were already flagged in their overseas medical screening as having been diagnosed with ?TB, clinically active, not infectious? (Risk Class B1), latent TB infection (LTBI) (Risk Class B2), or had recent contact with someone who had active TB (Risk Class B3).
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