Ireland: Travellers are three times more likely to get TB

[Shiloh]

Source: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/travellers-three-times-more-likely-tb-075017479.html#htuL292

Travellers are three times more likely to get TB
TheJournal.ieBy Paul Hosford | TheJournal.ie ? 15 hours ago

Travellers are three times more likely than white Irish people to get tuberculosis a new study has found.

Researchers from the school of medicine at Trinity College have found that members of the Travelling community also contract the disease much younger than the rest of the population.

The findings of the study, carried out in conjunction with the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) and the Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre were recently published in the international journal Epidemiology & Infection...

 

[Ronan Kelly]

As background, "Travellers" in Ireland are a community of people who traditionally spend a significant amount of the year living in caravans parked on vacant land.

From wikipedia;
Irish Travellers (Irish: an lucht si?il) also called pavees, tinkers or gypsies, are a traditionally itinerant ethnic group who maintain a set of traditions.[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP] Although predominantly English speaking, some also use Sheltaand other similar cants. They live mostly in Ireland as well as having large numbers in the United Kingdom and in the United States.[SUP][3][/SUP] Their origin is disputed. Around 10,000 people in the United States are descendants of Travellers who left Ireland, mostly during the period between 1845 and 1860 during the Great Famine.[SUP][4][/SUP] About 2,500 of them live in Murphy Village, a community outside North Augusta, South Carolina.[SUP][5]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Travellers