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fromwww.bbc.com
20 hours ago

Harrow records highest rate of TB in London

The National TB Surveillance System said 44 in every 100,000 residents had active TB in Harrow, and cases "still seem to be rising", the council said. Laurence Gibson, Harrow's director of public health, said the current cohort of residents with TB were "likely to have been infected before they travelled to the UK", adding that it was an issue across north-west London.
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fromThe Mercury News
5 days ago
Public health

Why the Bay Area has been a tuberculosis hotspot for more than a century

The Bay Area has tuberculosis rates three times the national average due to its ports and immigration history, with over 90% of active cases occurring among immigrants from countries with limited vaccine access.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
5 days ago
Coronavirus

Why the Bay Area has been a tuberculosis hotspot for more than a century

The Bay Area experiences tuberculosis rates three times the national average due to its ports and immigration history, with over 200 high school students recently infected in San Francisco.
Public health
fromThe Mercury News
5 days ago

Why the Bay Area has been a tuberculosis hotspot for more than a century

The Bay Area has tuberculosis rates three times the national average due to its ports and immigration history, with over 90% of active cases occurring among immigrants from countries with limited vaccine access.
Coronavirus
fromwww.mercurynews.com
5 days ago

Why the Bay Area has been a tuberculosis hotspot for more than a century

The Bay Area experiences tuberculosis rates three times the national average due to its ports and immigration history, with over 200 high school students recently infected in San Francisco.
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fromsfist.com
1 month ago

Day Around the Bay: SF's Archbishop Riordan High School Pauses Online Classes to Cut TB Spread

Bay Area walkouts protested ICE crackdowns and Minneapolis killings; Archbishop Riordan High reported a tuberculosis outbreak and an SF shooting injured three people.
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