Friday, June 22, 2007

Would you like a side of tuberculosis with that chicken?

Health officials tested 286 employees at a poultry-processing plant for TB and nearly half had a positive skin test. erry said investigators were not surprised by the number of positive skin tests because so many of the employees are foreign-born. People born in other countries are nearly nine times more likely to have TB than those born in the US.



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