{"id":7090,"date":"2007-06-01T19:09:49","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T19:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/01\/tuberculosis\/"},"modified":"2007-06-01T19:09:49","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T19:09:49","slug":"tuberculosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2007\/06\/01\/7090\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuberculosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuberculosis has been in the news lately <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/05\/29\/AR2007052901182.html\">because of the story <\/a>concerning the man with &#8220;extensively drug resistant&#8221; tuberculosis (XDR TB)\u00a0who has been quarantined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>The National Center for Health Statistics does not track tuberculosis cases. That is done by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/tb\/xdrtb\/\">National Center for HIV\/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention<\/a>. An online database of TB cases can be <a href=\"http:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/tb.html\">accessed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We do track deaths from tuberculosis, XDR and otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>1999\u00a0 1119<\/p>\n<p>2000\u00a0 901<\/p>\n<p>2001\u00a0 875<\/p>\n<p>2002\u00a0 892\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2003\u00a0 791<\/p>\n<p>2004\u00a0 739<\/p>\n<p>Reported cases of tuberculosis <a href=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/tuberculosis.pdf\">can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Links to various federal and state regulations governing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/blog\/secrecy\/2007\/05\/a_review_of_government_quarant.html\">quarantine of patients <\/a>are here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuberculosis has been in the news lately because of the story concerning the man with &#8220;extensively drug resistant&#8221; tuberculosis (XDR TB)\u00a0who 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,63685,61958,150,63817],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}