Nation IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Health Officials Plan Mass TB Tests
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Health workers will sweep through Washington’s homeless shelters tonight to test residents for tuberculosis in a novel, high-stakes strategy to control the resurgent disease in one of its main breeding grounds. Officials hope eventually to reach up to 5,000 homeless men and women. The campaign marks the first time any large U.S. city will try systematically to examine people in homeless shelters to find and treat TB, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control.
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