Could London have a NYC style TB epidemic?

Its worth looking back at a time before QFT, the HPA are now using Quantiferon as a first line diagnostic

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From 1978 through 1992, the number of patients with tuberculosis in New York City nearly tripled, and the proportion of such patients who had drug-resistant isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis more than doubled.(1)

The response to the city’s tuberculosis epidemic has cost well over $1bn (£625m) and the human cost has been immeasurable (2)

If TB control in London is not improved, the city could experience an epidemic of similar proportions to that in New York. (3)



(1) TB in New York City--turning the tide.

(2) Lessons from New York’s TB epidemic

(3) Could a TB Epidemic Occur in London as It Did in New York?