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Disease Surveillance Among U.S.-Bound Immigrants and Refugees — Electronic Disease Notification System, U.S. 2014–2019
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1 21 2022
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Source: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries, 2022; v. 71, no. 2
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Journal Article:Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries
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Description:Each year, approximately 500,000 immigrants and tens of thousands of refugees (range: 12,000–85,000 during 2001–2020) move to the U.S. While still abroad, immigrants, refugees, and others who apply for admission to live permanently in the U.S. must undergo a medical examination. This examination identifies persons with class A or B conditions. Applicants with class A conditions are inadmissible. Infectious conditions that cause an applicant to be inadmissible include infectious Tuberculosis (TB) disease (class A TB), infectious syphilis, gonorrhea, and infectious Hansen’s disease. Applicants with class B conditions are admissible but might require treatment or follow-up. Class B TB includes persons who completed successful treatment overseas for TB disease (class B0), those with signs or symptoms suggestive of TB but whose overseas laboratory tests and clinical examinations ruled out current infectious TB disease (class B1), those with a diagnosis of latent TB infection (LTBI) (class B2), and the close contacts of persons known to have TB disease (class B3). Voluntary public health interventions might also be offered during the overseas examination. After arriving in the U.S. a follow-up TB examination is recommended for persons with class B TB. This report summarizes health information that was reported to CDC’s Electronic Disease Notification (EDN) system for refugees, immigrants, and eligible others who arrived in the U.S. during 2014–2019. Eligible others are persons who although not classified as refugees (e.g., certain parolees, special immigrant visa holders, and follow-to-join asylees) are eligible for the same services and benefits as refugees.
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ISSN:1546-0738 (print);1545-8636 (digital);
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Pubmed ID:35051136
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Pubmed Central ID:PMC8791661
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Pages in Document:24 pdf pages
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Volume:71
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Issue:2
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