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Is it catching? - Tuberculosis
By Patricia Slatcher,
Nursery World,
1 June 2000
The schools vaccination programme against TB has been suspended, just as the disease is on the rise. Patricia Slatcher reports
The schools vaccination programme against TB has been suspended, just as the disease is on the rise. Patricia Slatcher reports There are now more people with tuberculosis in the UK than there are with measles or the flu. Currently at almost 7,000 recorded cases a year, the occurrence of the disease has risen by around 20 per cent since 1987, and in some areas as much as 80 per cent. Worldwide, TB now kills more people than malaria and AIDS...
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