Increase in tuberculosis notification rates among newly arriving male Ukrainian refugees to Norway, 2022 to 2024.
Karine Nordstrand, Jacob Dag Berild
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2025-08
Abstract
The war in Ukraine has caused large population displacements. We report increasing tuberculosis (TB) notification rates among Ukrainian refugees to Norway detected through systematic screening upon arrival and driven by rates among adult males. From 2022 to 2024, there were 73 TB notifications in Ukrainians; incidence among Ukrainian men reached 248 per 100,000 in 2024. In 22 cases, isolatedwere multidrug-resistant. Adequate TB surveillance and control strategies are important to prevent TB outbreaks, including multidrug-resistant TB, in Europe.
MeSH terms
- Humans
- Refugees
- Male
- Ukraine
- Norway
- Adult
- Disease Notification
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Incidence
- Tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant
- Middle Aged
- Young Adult
- Population Surveillance
- Adolescent
- Mass Screening