Ogun State Government has called on residents to actively participate in the fight against tuberculosis, TB by promoting ...

Subclinical TB or tuberculosis ... confirmatory molecular test (NAAT), before beginning any treatment,” officials said. The department only intends to do the X-ray screening once annually.

If you don’t have symptoms and haven’t experienced TB exposure, Medicare may class this as a screening ... professionals can perform a PPD skin test to test for TB. Medicare Part B may ...

The other form of the disease is active TB, where someone is experiencing symptoms of the infection and could spread it to other people. TB can be fatal if not treated properly. The skin test ...

Deputy chief public health officer Dr. Ekua Agyemang said the Department of Health is taking this opportunity to screen the whole community for tuberculosis (TB) with a ‘stepwise’ (one step at ...