Alberta Health Services says 55 people have potentially been exposed to a confirmed case of tuberculosis in the province's south. The agency says the infected person works at a food-processing plant, although the transmission of the infection is not related to the food processed there.Oh, look... there's another link in this article...
Calgary's tuberculosis clinic is facing a surge in demand as the number of active cases in the city has increased by 42 per cent since 2010. MacDonald says the increase in TB rates is due, in large part, to an influx of immigrants and refugees from high-risk countries.Or, to be a little more precise, immigrants and refugees from high-risk countries who are apparently not being medically pre-screened because... RACISM?!
When Mrs Neo applied for a student job at a fast food place in the seventies, she had to submit a chest x-ray to prove she didn't have tuberculosis.
Apparently standards have slipped somewhat since then.
