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.

“Child mortality under age 5 has declined by 86 percent, and there is no way you can explain it by controlling measles and whooping cough and tuberculosis,” Aaby emphasized to Salon.

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