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 —at least among the five states that have confirmed to Breitbart that refugees resettled in their state have either arrived with active TB, or developed it within the first year of their arrival.
As Breitbart News reported previously, eleven refugees with active TB were sent to Florida since 2013, four refugees with active TB were sent to Indiana in 2015, ten refugees with active TB were sent to Colorado since 2011, and nine refugees with active TB were sent to one county (Fayette) in Kentucky since 2013.
Four percent of the general population in the United States has LTBI, while approximately 33 percent of the rest of the world has it. ...
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/06/17/twenty-one-refugees-active-tb-sent-louisiana-since-2011/
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