Did you you know that, since July 2005, BCG tests for tuberculosis have been withdrawn from schools?

See the story on the BBC here

 

TB is on the increase in the UK. Last year there were around 7,000 cases of TB in Britain. Hundreds died from this disease.

 

The West Midlands has the second highest number of new cases outside London.

See the story from The Birmingham Post -Thirty children test positive for TB at Birmingham school May 1 2008

 

An undetected infectious TB victim will, on average, infect another 10 cases in a year, each of whom could transmit the disease in turn.