Where health care won’t go: a TB crisis in the Black Belt

An article published in Harper's Magazine discribes a TB outbreak in the United States in Marion, Alabama.

"... Marion, a town of 3,500..., has been grappling with a historic outbreak of a disease that has vanished from worry in much of the United States. Thirty-four active cases have been found; if that doesn’t seem like a lot, consider that the rate of infection — what the World Health Organization uses to determine severity — is almost a hundred times the national average, and higher than the rates in India, Kenya, and Haiti. Nearly 200 more in Marion were discovered to have latent tuberculosis, meaning that they were infected but had not developed active symptoms... "