That is an informed guess which is very likely to be true. These are the very people who will not register with a GP, have a medical examination including chest X Ray, and agree to BCG vaccination. Even if they should be diagnosed and treated, they're likely to default on the full 6 months required, leading to the increasing problem of multi-drug resistant TB in the UK.Originally Posted by Dedworth
50 years ago there were around 50,000 new cases of TB in the UK. It's a bacterial infection spread by coughs and sneezes from an infected person. It can take many months or years before symptoms appear, and it need not be confined to the lungs. My father, a GP, acquired it from a patient, eventually recovering after weeks in a hospital for infectious diseases. It's the Dickensian image of TB - "consumption" - belonging to the 19th century, which needs to change. The infection is a major public health problem of THIS century.
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