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05/23/07
Homestudies Require TB Test
Categories: Homestudy
Each year when our family renews our adoptive homestudy, we all have to repeat our TB skin test. I admit to thinking and verbalizing, ”TB test are old- fashioned and out-dated, wouldn’t it be more realistic to test prospective adoptive parents for HIV or a Hepatitis Virus?” It turns out that I was incredibly wrong about TB being out-dated; it seems that Tuberculosis is posing a major crisis in some public health circles.
Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease that is spread when infected patients cough; it usually affects the lungs. Programs are... more
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