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scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

The Wing Commanders and Flight Sergeants over at British Aerospace are very quiet about the outbreak of TB on their base !

Official Secrets Act ?

Arab Strap · Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 246 Location: under your bed

TB?????? surely not, please tell us the full story.......

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

Naw-all BAE got a letter about it as well as sub contractors-no secret.

3 TSI teachers got it and the rumour is that the first teacher to go down with it picked it up on holiday in Poland.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Terminated ?

thrifty · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1665 Location: chip van

Of course not. Medical leave, paid.

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

It's quite common to pick up TB in Saudi; I got it in Jubail in 1999.

One possibility is that you have it anyway (one of the consultants at University College Hospital in London told me that up to a third of the population probably have the vacillus dormant) and that something, such as stress, triggers it off.

As long as the strain is not immune to drugs it is very easily cured with triple drug therapy. You stop becoming infectious in a fortnight, and are completely clear after six months.