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TB, HIV and Hepatitis Test Results Announced
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, October 16th, 1995
A system-wide tuberculosis (TB) screening of inmates and employees; and
A seroprevalence study of 5,000 incoming inmates for HIV and hepatitis.
"We are adding an entirely new chapter of scientific data to the study of infectious diseases," said Director of Corrections James H. Gomez. "The public health issues we find in our prisons are a reflection of what is going on in the community at large," said Gomez.
More than 118,000 inmates in the state prison system were tested during a three day period in April 1993 and again in...
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