Last question. Since 2007, we, in the United States, as you know so well, have been doing very aggressive screening among the immigrant population--legal immigrants this is--and the refugees, the 450,000 immigrants and 70,000 refugees annually, and as a matter of fact, it is so stringent that if somebody has TB they have to come in without it or they are inadmissible to the United States.
Chris Smith: “Last question. Since 2007, we, in the United States, as you know so well, have been doing very aggressive screening…”
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Smith discusses stringent TB screening for immigrants and refugees in the U.S.
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