Nearly one in five Tibetan refugee schoolchildren has tuberculosis infection, Johns Hopkins study finds

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) In a tuberculosis screening and treatment initiative covering the entire population of Tibetan refugee schoolchildren in northern India, a team directed by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the University of Wisconsin says it has found not only a startlingly high prevalence of TB disease and infection, but also a potentially workable strategy to eliminate the disease in a large, high-risk group.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news