Summary
MORE than 600 patients and staff at the two main hospitals in Tayside are to be offered screening for tuberculosis after a patient and a healthcare worker were found to have contracted the potentially fatal disease.
The patient, diagnosed with TB, had been admitted to a number of medical wards at Perth Royal Infirmary over the past six months. The healthcare worker is a member of staff in two of the wards at Dundee's Ninewells Hospital.See the full content of this document
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Patients Offered Tests As Hospitals Hit by Tb Outbreak
NHS Tayside yesterday announced that the health board was taking the precautionary step of c...
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