Infectious Disease Physician

: While the pre-immigration chest X-ray identifies active TB in some new immigrants, the risk of disease varies widely by the immigrants’ country of origin, said Dr, according to Toronto Star. Kamran Khan, an infectious disease physician at St. Between 2008 and 2011, Citizenship and Immigration Canada screened out 157 prospective immigrants who were found to have active TB — 87.3 per cent or 137 of them came from Afghanistan, China, India, Pakistan, the Philippines and Vietnam. Michael hospital and lead author of the study. The study, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday, linked newcomer data from the immigration department and Ontario health ministry. When we screen every new immigrant in precisely the same way, we unnecessarily consume valuable resources looking for active TB in populations where the probability of disease is essentially zero. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.