l-r: Elizabeth Bryce and Annalee Yassi
Dr. Annalee Yassi and Dr. Elizabeth Bryce help Ecuador and South Africa with the health of their health workers.
Tuberculosis, once thought to be vanquished, has made an alarming comeback – in 2012, 8.8 million people got the diseae and 1.4 million died from it, almost all of them in the developing world.
But the risk faced by health care workers has been largely overlooked, even though they face the highest risk of contracting it and can then spread it to others.
Read more of this article from UBC Medicine magazine (Vol. 8 No. 1 Spring 2012)