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Source: http://www.jacksoncountychronicle.com/articles/2010/04/29/news/01tb.txt
Published - Thursday, April 29, 2010
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(Jackson) County has first TB case in six years
by Matthew Perenchio | Editor
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Jackson County has its first confirmed case of tuberculosis since 2004.
Jackson County health officer Christine Hovell said the county?s Department of Health and Human Services was notified of the case about three weeks ago, and the person currently is being treated.
Hovell would not release any specific information about the individual but did say the person was a county resident...
...The state of Wisconsin sees about 70 TB cases a year, according to Lorna Will, program director of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services? Tuberculosis Program. The bacterial disease is not as deadly as it was at the turn of the 20th century due to antibiotics created after World War II, but Will said it is just as serious, and there are four to five TB-related deaths in Wisconsin a year...
Published - Thursday, April 29, 2010
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(Jackson) County has first TB case in six years
by Matthew Perenchio | Editor
.
Jackson County has its first confirmed case of tuberculosis since 2004.
Jackson County health officer Christine Hovell said the county?s Department of Health and Human Services was notified of the case about three weeks ago, and the person currently is being treated.
Hovell would not release any specific information about the individual but did say the person was a county resident...
...The state of Wisconsin sees about 70 TB cases a year, according to Lorna Will, program director of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services? Tuberculosis Program. The bacterial disease is not as deadly as it was at the turn of the 20th century due to antibiotics created after World War II, but Will said it is just as serious, and there are four to five TB-related deaths in Wisconsin a year...