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  • UK: TB screening in Cambridgeshire after cluster of cases

    Source: http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/updat...ster-of-cases/
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    TB screening in Cambridgeshire after cluster of cases
    Last updated Thu 10 Apr 2014

    ...Paul Bullen made his remarks to ITV News Anglia following the diagnosis of 17 cases of the disease among workers at factories in Chatteris near Ely...

    Public Health England says they cannot screen migrants from the European Union for TB, but that migrants from other countries with high rates of the disease are required to give proof they have been recently screened and are clear of the disease.

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    Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-c...shire-26968439

    10 April 2014 Last updated at 10:07 ET
    Tuberculosis tests for Cambridgeshire factory workers

    Up to 500 workers at Cambridgeshire vegetable factories whose colleagues were diagnosed with tuberculosis are being screened for the disease.

    Last month Public Health England (PHE) confirmed 17 staff at two sites in the Chatteris area had been diagnosed with the disease since 2012.

    Workers are being offered X-rays and blood tests at a factory in the town.

    The PHE said there was "no evidence" tuberculosis could be caught from consuming the factories' vegetables...
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