We are currently going through the Green Card process, and our medicals
showed us to be positive for TB. Not surprising since, along with (I
believe) everyone else in the UK, we were vaccinated against TB as
teenagers.
Our doc now says that: "even tho you've been immunized it is assumed
that you have "latent TB" meaning that the bacteria are walled off
somewhere - with a 10% chance lifetime of creating active TB in each of
you
.we generally recommend that patients take isonizad x 9 months in your
situations to decrease the active TB risk to about 1 %".
I am gathering information on the Net about this but would be grateful
for any informed British opinions. I am extremely reluctant to take a
powerful antibiotic for 9 months. Surely the British government would
not have this vaccination programme if there was a real risk?
I'm surprised that this does not seem to have come up here before. Has
no one else faced this problem?
TIA for any explanations or advice.
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