People who have been in close contact with tuberculosis patients should be screened and required to take preventive drugs, Taiwan experts said on Wednesday, as an outbreak at a school in Hong Kong sparked fears of a citywide epidemic.
Taiwan has extensive experience in dealing with the contagious disease and greatly reduced the infection rate in its population over the past decade.
In Hong Kong, eight people from Kiangsu-Chekiang College in Sha Tin recently contracted tuberculosis, with the...
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