Tuberculosis isn’t talked about much these days. For World TB Day, the LaSalle County Health Department wants you to know it’s still around. Health Educator Leslie Dougherty says if you think you’ve been around someone with TB, you can get a test.
Today’s the 141st anniversary of the doctor who discovered the TB bacterium announcing what he found. Many people fight off the germ without getting sick. But around 13 million Americans have the virus living quietly in their bodies–latent TB–and have a 10% chance of getting sick eventually.