"The 11 million Americans with latent TB represent a ticking time bomb," Dr. Kenneth Castro, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's division of tuberculosis elimination, said at a news conference Monday. "They're the source of future TB cases."
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"It's very clear that, in this country, if we are going to get rid of TB, we have to do so by preventing people at risk from going on to develop the disease," said Dr. Richard Chaisson of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the senior author of the study. That can only be accomplished by curing latent TB, he said.
