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Health officials in the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois, have reported several cases of tuberculosis at migrant shelters.that there are “a small number of cases” of tuberculosis “among new arrivals in a few different shelters over the course of the response.”
It is important to note that an estimated 10-20% of residents of Central and South America have latent TB infection TB is not a novel or rarely seen illness in Chicago, as the Chicago Department of Public Health typically expects to see between 100-150 cases CDPH officials did not divulge the exact number of TB cases among migrants or the location of the shelters where the TB cases originated.
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