Originally Posted By: red
...you're just looking at the last decade, and we have been fighting this epidemic, yes, epidemic, since 1980...

Could you specify what statistics/measures/definitions you're basing this statement on?

If you're referring to the uptick in TB in this country that started in the mid-1980's, that's long over. That peaked in 1992 and we are far below those levels today. In 2007, both the rate and the actual number of cases of TB in the US was the lowest ever recorded (the Federal gov't started keeping track of nationwide TB stats in 1953).