Category: tuberculosis
Tuberculosis Deaths in U.S. from 1999-2020
Year Deaths Age Adjusted Death Rate Per 100,000 1999 930 0.3 2000 776 0.3 2001 764 0.3 2002 784 0.3 2003 711 0.2 2004 657 0.2 2005 648 0.2 2006 652 0.2 2007 554 0.2 2008 585 0.2 2009 529 0.1 2010 569 0.2 2011 539 0.2 2012 510 0.1 2013 555 0.1 2014 493 Read More >
Posted on byHistorical Leading Causes of Death
We’re all fairly familiar with the leading causes of death today: heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases, accidents, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, influenza/Pneumonia, kidney disease, and septicemia. (As an aside, you can querythe leading causes of death in detail from 1981 to present at CDC’s WONDER database.) But what were the leading causes of death Read More >
Posted on by 6 CommentsTuberculosis
Tuberculosis has been in the news lately because of the story concerning the man with “extensively drug resistant” tuberculosis (XDR TB) who has been quarantined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The National Center for Health Statistics does not track tuberculosis cases. That is done by the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Read More >
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