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World TB Day 2008

Tuberculosis Cases and Deaths in the United States, 1980 - 2007 TB Cases. Reference 1 Graph: Tuberculosis cases and deaths in the United States, 1980 - 2007 TB Deaths. Reference 2 Reference 3

1 Tuberculosis morbidity data compiled by the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, CDC.  Statistics based on preliminary data.

2 Tuberculosis mortality data compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics, CDC. TB mortality data available through 2005.

3 Data on TB deaths after 2005 are not available.

World Tuberculosis (TB) Day is March 24, 2008. World TB Day provides an opportunity to communicate TB-related problems and solutions and to support worldwide TB-control efforts. Although the number of TB cases is slowly decreasing in the US, TB still affects thousands of Americans each year and hundreds die from the disease annually.

The resurgence of TB in the mid-1980s was marked by several years of increasing case counts until its peak in 1992. Case counts began decreasing again in 1993, and 2007 marked the fifteenth year of decline in the total number of TB cases reported in the United States since the peak of the resurgence. From 1992 until 2000, the total number of TB cases decreased 4.9% annually. From 2000 to 2007, however, the total number of TB cases decreased by only 2.6% annually. In 2007, a total of 13,293 cases were reported from the 50 states and the District of Columbia. This represents a decline of 3.3% from 2006 and of 52% from 1980.

The number of deaths due to TB has dropped from 1,978 in 1980 to 646 in 2005.  The total number of TB deaths has declined 2.7% annually; however, four of the five years between 1985 and 1989 saw increases in the number of TB deaths. 

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Reported Tuberculosis in the United States, 2006.  2007. Atlanta, GA, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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