UCLA faces tuberculosis outbreak in skid row

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Since February, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been working with the three public health facilities serving skid row, including the UCLA clinic that's located at the Union Rescue Mission, after the county health officials issued a health alert about the outbreak. They identified 78 TB cases that have occurred on skid row in 2007-2012. Of those cases, 60 people were homeless. And of those 60, 11 died of TB. All of these cases were evaluated as treatable with medications. For the full UCLA Today story, go to http://ucla.in/13Jp1j8

Published 2013-06-06 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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