article_snippet: Treatment: More than 13,000 cases are reported in the U.S. each year.
article_snippet: There are also an estimated 10 to 15 million people in the U.S. who are infected with the TB germ, with potential to develop TB disease in the future.
article_snippet: Director of the health department, Lougene Marsh, said: 'The number of individuals with TB infection does not exceed what we would anticipate in this setting.'
article_snippet: A total of 9,582 TB disease cases were reported in the U.S. in 2013 - compared to 84,304 cases when the CDC the CDC began records in 1953.
article_snippet: The same year, 9 million people around the world became sick with TB disease, leading to 1.5 million deaths.