The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment admits that sixteen refugees were diagnosed with active TB between 2011 and 2014.
The admission comes one month after Breitbart News reported ten recently arrived refugees in Colorado were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB). Between 2011 and 2014, 16 out of 7,754 refugees were diagnosed with active TB at the time of their initial medical screening.
That’s one out of every 484 arriving refugees.
During that same time period, 67 out of the state’s estimated 4.5 million U.S.-born residents were diagnosed with active TB.
That’s one out of every 67,164 U.S.-born residents of Colorado.
Refugees resettled in Colorado developed active TB at a rate 138 times higher than U.S.-born residents of Colorado. ...
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/07/12/colorado-now-says-sixteen-refugees-diagnosed-active-tb/