Medicare Part B may cover the costs of a purified protein derivative (PPD) test if your healthcare professional deems it necessary to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) due to existing symptoms. A PPD test ...
Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, per data from the World Health Organization. A person infected with the ...
The San Francisco Department of Public Health said in a news release that among the 1,261 students and staff at the high ...
The risk to the general public appears low after an outbreak of tuberculosis at Archbishop Riordan High School, the San Francisco Department of Public Health says. Three active TB cases were confirmed ...
While there is a vaccine for TB, it’s not generally recommended in the U.S. because of the low risk of severe disease in the ...
San Francisco health officials have identified more than 200 latent cases of tuberculosis associated with an outbreak first reported at Archbishop Riordan High School in November.
The risk to the general public appears low after an outbreak of tuberculosis at Archbishop Riordan High School, the San ...