At a veterans hospital in my district. 13 people died from tuberculosis. 11 veterans and 2 employees. At a local welfare office. we have found that. doing the tests. we have found 20 percent of the employees tested positive for tuberculosis. In New York. the IGWU took 1.300 persons. tested them. new immigrants from Eastern Europe. and 40 percent tested positive for tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is something that you can ride a subway car and engage with the same people on a daily basis. and if that happens. just casually. in a subway car. if you do that for 2 or 3 weeks. a person can contract tuberculosis and become HIV positive just simply by that kind of casual contact. And we have serious problems in this country. and particularly in the Northeast.
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Immigrants from Eastern Europe are associated with high rates of tuberculosis.