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programs for their school children. The intradermal skin test for TB is simple, quick and practically painless. It is also inexpensive and reliable.
A positive test does not necessarily mean that the person has active TB, because people usually react positively even when the TB is inactive or healed. But is does signal the need for further examination to make sure all is well. A negative test "ia a good 'indication that there is no TB. Most important, the test can detect the disease early, some times when least suspected. For example, in the state o f Ohio in 1960 about 22% of the people who died from TB never knew they had it. The simple skin test and early treatment might have prevented many of these deaths and stopped spread of the disease to others. “The Great White Plague,” as TB used to be called, is no longer the plague that it was . But it still is an ominous threat, especially to children and young people. In babies who become infected from parents with unsuspected TB, medical experience indicates that early treatment can prevent TB meningitis, the brain infection that was formerly almost 100% fatal. Treatment for tuberculosis in most cases today is not the laborious, confining, expensive process it used to be. Especially when detected early, the disease can be treated with modern drugs that are relatively inexpensive and easy to take. For those with the most severe forms of the disease who require addmittance to hospitals, amplp facilities are available./it detected early with the TB akin-test it may not be necessary to go to the hospital at ail. _
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