Calif. County Officials To Require TB Tests for All Students

Health authorities in Orange County, Calif., have announced plans to require all prospective students to prove that they have been tested for tuberculosis.

The order comes in the wake of what officials have called the worst outbreak of drug-resistant TB at a high school ever reported.

Dr. Jody Meador, the county health department's tuberculosis controller, said the new requirement was necessary in light of a growing incidence of the respiratory disease nationwide, particularly among children. (See Education...

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