In response, UAB Campus and UAB Medicine have updated its policy. UAB will no longer require routine annual TB skin testing for most existing employees, effective immediately. Employees who have been ...

Unprecedented’ TB outbreak recorded in Kansas with nearly 70 cases reported - ‘Currently, Kansas has the largest outbreak that they’ve ever had in history’ said a Kansas Department of Health and Envir ...

A confirmed case of active tuberculosis at Tiyan High School has prompted a required TB skin testing for individuals who may have been exposed to the bacteria causing the infectious lung disease ...

This may cause false-negative tuberculin skin tests (TST) and failure to identify tuberculosis (TB ... 99% had at least one positive skin test. Generalised anergy was therefore rare, despite ...