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Re: FL: 2012 TB cases
Source: http://www.wdbo.com/news/news/local/...sis-con/nSs6M/
Updated: 6:14 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 | Posted: 6:12 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012
Officials push to test homeless over T.B. concern
ORLANDO, Fla. ?
On any given night, as many as 4,500 people are homeless in Orlando. Many of those on the streets are families and children.
Now, local health officials want to test all of those who are homeless for tuberculosis.
"It's focused on three things: identification, containment, elimination," said Bakari Burns, CEO of Health Care Center for the Homeless.
The concern comes after the biggest TB outbreak the Centers for Disease Control has seen in 20 years. That outbreak is happening just 140 miles from Orlando, in Jacksonville...
Source: http://www.wdbo.com/news/news/local/...sis-con/nSs6M/
Updated: 6:14 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 | Posted: 6:12 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012
Officials push to test homeless over T.B. concern
ORLANDO, Fla. ?
On any given night, as many as 4,500 people are homeless in Orlando. Many of those on the streets are families and children.
Now, local health officials want to test all of those who are homeless for tuberculosis.
"It's focused on three things: identification, containment, elimination," said Bakari Burns, CEO of Health Care Center for the Homeless.
The concern comes after the biggest TB outbreak the Centers for Disease Control has seen in 20 years. That outbreak is happening just 140 miles from Orlando, in Jacksonville...
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