Decrease in Reported Tuberculosis Cases – United States, 2009

This report discusses the results from the National TB Surveillance System for 2009. A total of 11,540 TB cases were reported in the United States for a TB rate of 3.8 cases per 100,000 population. This was a decrease of 11.4 percent from the rate of 4.2 per 100,000 reported for 2008. This rate was the greatest single-year decrease ever recorded and the lowest recorded rate since national TB surveillance began in 1953. The report provides TB rates among Hispanics, blacks, and Asians, compared to that of non-Hispanic Whites; rates of TB cases by state/area; numbers and rates of TB cases among US-born and foreign-born persons by year reported from 1993-2009; and the numbers and rates of TB cases and percentage change by race/ethnicity.