Three active cases of tuberculosis have popped up in Maine, following an increase of the disease in the United States since 2020 — most of it among those not born in the U.S. — after three decades of decline, national data reveals.
Lindsay Hammes, spokesperson for the Maine Center for Disease Control, told the Portland Press Herald that the agency was “aware of three active TB cases with links to the Greater Portland area and is in the midst of conducting our typical response.”
She added that the cases do not appear be transmitted between those three persons and each came from a separate source. Meanwhile, city and state officials told the newspaper rumors of an outbreak at the Portland shelter for asylum seekers are untrue.
However, data clearly shows that most of the TB cases in the United States are among those born elsewhere in the world.
In the U.S. in 2024, 10,347 cases were reported of the disease, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That’s a rate of 3 cases per 100,000 of the population, part of the trajectory after an all time low in 2020 which began increasing in 2021 and has continued through at least 2024.
The CDC report does not directly link the U.S. TB increase to the massive influx of illegal boarder crossings during the years of the Biden administration. But the latest CDC data does draw a dramatic difference in rates between those born in the U.S. and those born elsewhere.
The illegals are dragging that shit into our country, Tis country had not had a problem with TB for decades til the slimeballs from every slum hole in the world started pouring into our once great country til Obiden ruined it.