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| No escape from tuberculosis outbreak for Alabama prison inmates |
| By techtimes.com- Lori Sandoval |
| Published: 08/18/2014 |
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The worst tuberculosis outbreak in the severely overcrowded Alabama prisons in the past five years has been recorded recently, an official at the Alabama Department of Public Health revealed Thursday in several reports. Nine active cases of tuberculosis, a contagious respiratory disease, were diagnosed this year in state prisons, according to Pam Barrett, who is the director of tuberculosis control at the said health department. She clarified that though the digits aren’t that big, the annual average of Alabama prisons since 2009 has fewer than five cases of tuberculosis. Last year was even zero. Reason why she already considered this year “a very serious outbreak.” Read More. |
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