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Joan Stephenson, PhD

JAMA. 2000;283:2776-2777.

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A new report calling for the elimination of tuberculosis (TB) in the United States warns that the potential cost of not making such an effort is a resurgence of the disease.

The report, prepared for the Institute of Medicine (IOM) by a panel of experts, recommends aggressive measures to stamp out lingering traces of the disease in hard-to-reach, high-risk populations. One key component of the panel's blueprint for TB elimination involves screening would-be immigrants for latent infection before allowing them to enter this country.

NOT-SO-BENIGN NEGLECT

Opening with a quotation from philosopher George Santayana, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," the report urgently describes the need to avoid the complacency that contributed to TB's resurgence in the United States in the 1980s. After the introduction of effective treatment in 1953 resulted in dramatic declines in TB rates, public health leaders dared to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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