{"id":822,"date":"2010-03-24T11:52:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T15:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/?p=822"},"modified":"2015-06-04T15:25:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T19:25:35","slug":"now-for-some-good-news-tb-cases-continue-to-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/now-for-some-good-news-tb-cases-continue-to-decline\/2010\/03\/24\/","title":{"rendered":"Now for Some Good News:  TB Cases Continue to Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the latest\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm5910a2.htm\">MMWR<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-823\" title=\"decline in TB cases\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/03\/decline-in-TB-cases1.gif\" alt=\"decline in TB cases\" width=\"595\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This figure speaks for itself, but two sentences from the Editorial Note deserve highlighting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 11.4% decrease in reported TB rate in 2009 is the largest single-year decrease ever recorded. From 1953 to 1993, the single largest annual percentage decrease in TB case rate was 11.1% in 1956<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since I started my ID career in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/1928942\" target=\"_blank\">these dark days<\/a> &#8212; when we were all expecting (and some were experiencing) a cataclysmic increase in TB nationwide &#8212; all I can say is &#8230; <em>wow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m not a bit surprised that these remarkable data have thus far received such scant media coverage, because stories about Infectious Diseases are <em>so <\/em>much more exciting when they go in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the latest\u00a0MMWR: This figure speaks for itself, but two sentences from the Editorial Note deserve highlighting: The 11.4% decrease in reported TB rate in 2009 is the largest single-year decrease ever recorded. From 1953 to 1993, the single largest annual percentage decrease in TB case rate was 11.1% in 1956 Since I started my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,9],"tags":[623,765,898,951],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infectious-diseases","category-patient-care","category-policy","tag-mmwr","tag-public-health","tag-tb","tag-tuberculosis"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}