Health officials in Florida hastened their closure of the nation’s
only dedicated tuberculosis hospital on cost-cutting grounds as one of
the worst outbreaks of the deadly disease in 20 years was taking a grip
on the state, it has been revealed.
At least 3,000 people in Jacksonville may have been exposed to the
highly contagious respiratory illness that claimed 13 lives in the city
and left another 100 sick in the last two years, a report from the
Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
concluded.
But news of the severity of the outbreak never reached Florida’s
politicians, who voted in March to bring forward the closure of the
100-bed AG Holley state hospital in Lantana by six months to July 2............
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