Over the past few years, we have experienced isolation, mask-wearing, and significant behavioral changes in response to a declared pandemic.
As that emergency fades into the “new normal” of our post-COVID world—the mass migration of people into Western countries is setting the stage for something potentially worse.
The escalating influx of individuals from various regions has led to an unprecedented situation at the U.S. border, raising concerns about the introduction of tuberculosis (TB) and other infectious diseases not widespread in the United States.
New U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data published in March found that tuberculosis cases increased by 5 percent in 2022 to 8,300 cases in the United States….