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More than 3,700 face tests for TB

Risk called higher for hospital staff

Dr. John Rich, medical director for the Boston Public Health Commission, talked with reporters about tuberculosis after a press conference yesterday.
By Stephen Smith and Alice Dembner
Globe Staff / June 17, 2005

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More than 3,700 hospital patients and workers started receiving notices yesterday that they should be tested for tuberculosis after possibly being exposed to a junior doctor who rotated through four Massachusetts hospitals while she had a contagious form of the disease for six months. (Full article: 1258 words)

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