Iowa averages 40-50 cases of tuberculosis each year

December 12, 2019 Carol Kuster State News 0

The Iowa Department of Public Health’s medical director says there were 49 cases of active tuberculosis in Iowa last year. Dr. Caitlin Pedati says that’s a significant reduction compared to historic trends in Iowa. “As far back as the 1930s and 1940s, we were seeing 500 (to) 700 cases of this and part of what […]