Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Recommendations and Reports, November 12, 1993 / Vol. 42 / No. RR-15

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• Alternative Title:
  Tuberculosis Control Laws--United States, 1993: Recommendations of the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis (ACET)
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Recommendations and Reports
• Personal Author:
  Knowlton, Sarah B. ; Schwartz, Lawrence Paul ; Willis, Brian M.
• Corporate Authors:
  Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis (U.S.) ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; National Center for Prevention Services (U.S.). Division of Tuberculosis Elimination.
• Description:
  Because of its communicable nature and because there are many state laws specific to the control of tuberculosis (TB), TB is managed differently than other airborne infectious diseases [corrected]. Many of these laws predate the current public health recommendations for the prevention and control of TB. In 1989, CDC published A Strategic Plan for the Elimination of Tuberculosis in the United States that was developed by the Advisory Committee (now Council) for the Elimination of Tuberculosis (ACET). The Plan called for the establishment of a national goal of TB elimination (i.e., achieving a case rate of < 1 per million population) by the year 2010. One of the methods for improving disease containment in the Plan was for the use of quarantine measures for nonadherent patients. The Plan called for revision of state and local laws to "facilitate the cure of persons with infectious tuberculosis". The issue of outdated state TB laws was also identified as a problem in the National Action Plan to Combat Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis. In response to this issue, CDC conducted a survey of state TB control laws and ACET developed recommendations to address discrepancies between previously published recommendations and guidelines for the control of TB and state TB control laws. In order to address these discrepancies, states updating TB control laws should incorporate current recommendations and guidelines from CDC, ACET, and the American Thoracic Society. State laws should permit policies and practices to be rapidly reviewed and amended as new data becomes available and new recommendations and guidelines are published.
• Content Notes:
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 12-13).
• Subjects:
  Disease Eradication Disease Notification Public Health Tuberculosis / Legislation & Jurisprudence Tuberculosis / Prevention & Control
• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Recommendations and Reports, 1993; v. 42, no. 15
• Series:
  Recommendations and Reports: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  1057-5987 (print)
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  35 pdf pages
• Volume:
  42
• Issue:
  15
• Peer Reviewed:
  Yes
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/13095/cdc_13095_DS1.pdf
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