Florida Accused of Concealing Worst Tuberculosis Outbreak In 20 Years

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from slashdot.org ............. "The state of Florida has been struggling for months with what the Centers for Disease Control describe as the worst tuberculosis outbreak in the United States in twenty years . Although a CDC report went out to state health officials in April encouraging them to take concerted action, the warning went largely unnoticed and nothing has been done. The public did not even learn of the outbreak until June, after a man with an active case of TB was spotted in a Jacksonville soup kitchen. The Palm Beach Post has managed to obtain records on the outbreak and the CDC report , though only after weeks of repeated requests. These documents should have been freely available under Florida's Sunshine Law."

[SkaarjMaster]

Yikes!

[Hawkwind]

With TB it’s a judgment call,” said Duval County Health Director Dr. Bob Harmon in a telephone interview Friday, after the state’s new surgeon general referred questions back to him.

“There have been TB outbreaks where we do alert the public, such as a school or a college,” Harmon added.

but homeless and mentally ill people, we don't give a flying rat's ass about