Five Workers in Michigan’s Wildlife Disease Lab infected with tuberculosis

It was recently announced that 5 employees of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources tested positive for a latent form tuberculosis in 2019 after testing white-tailed deer for chronic wasting disease and bovine tuberculosis. Hundreds of other employees and volunteers were offered testing but no results of such testing have been announced. Investigations of the incident did not discover exactly how the workers became infected.

Source: The Bridge (MI), March 6, 2020

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