MUHC study says not every healthcare worker needs an annual tuberculosis screening

In Victorian times, when death by “consumption” was thought to be caused by “bad airs” or miasmas, the cure called for a regimen of rest, a rich diet, and exercise in a sanatorium, a facility devoted to the treatment of tuberculosis. But while cases of infection continue to drop annually since the discovery of the tubercle bacillus in the late 1800s, the epidemic is far from over.
About a third of the world’s population is infected with tuberculosis bacteria, accord