tuberculosis

Some medical records showed that staffers failed to complete required mental and medical health screenings for new arrivals, and failed to complete tuberculosis screenings.

The story of tuberculosis, Burleigh points out, is another chronicle of reduced infection rates and lives saved.

Among the recorded causes of death were measles, whooping cough, influenza, tuberculosis and bronchitis.

Indeed, there’s evidence to suggest it may have been a mistake to stop administering the smallpox vaccine after the total elimination of smallpox, or to end the BCG vaccine as tuberculosis infection became rare.

Ten years ago she got a chesty cough, and initially thought it was tuberculosis.