Small Alabama County Offers Cash Amid Struggle To Stop Tuberculosis Spread

Small Alabama County Offers Cash Amid Struggle To Stop Tuberculosis Spread

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There’s only one health department in Alabama where people can go to be tested for tuberculosis. That’s in Perry County, where an outbreak claimed three lives in 2015. For every 100,000 people there, 253 would be infected; normally in Alabama it’s only 2.5. Now, health officials are trying to get handle on the disease. But it hasn’t been easy, so officials there decided to take a new approach.

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