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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

www.palmbeachpost.com: Worst TB Florida outbreak in 20 years kept secret

The AG Holley State Hospital that Gov. Scott closed

JACKSONVILLE --The CDC officer had a serious warning for Florida health officials in April: A tuberculosis outbreak in Jacksonville was one of the worst his group had investigated in 20 years. Linked to 13 deaths and 99 illnesses, including six children, it would require concerted action to stop.

That report had been penned on April 5, exactly nine days after Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed the bill that shrank the Department of Health and required the closure of the A.G. Holley State Hospital in Lantana, where tough tuberculosis cases have been treated for more than 60 years."

This was another really bad decsion from gov. Rick Scott, a man who became a billionaire in the health care industry. 

Note the TB symbol on the hospital.

See Worst TB outbreak in 20 years kept secret | www.palmbeachpost.com

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