Is this to close to home? 1..

decatur, AL- about 160 workers at a decatur poultry farm have been tested for tuberculosis was after a former employee was diagnosed with active TB, a state helth department official said.

the former employee, who was hospitalized and is being treated, left the wayne farms poultry plant several weeks ago.

scott jones said health officials initiated skin tests on the employess at the plant. jones, interim director of the health department's TB control division, said they will return to the plant friday to evaluate the employees reactions to the testing solution.

he would not name the former employee or say where he was hospitalized or where he resides.

any positive results resukts from wednesday's skin tests would only mean an employee has at some time been exposed to turberculosis, jones told the decatur daily in a story thursday. any wayne farms employees who test positive will receive lung X-rays on oct- 16th.

a person who tests positive for TB but has no symptoms is not

Yeah. Forget immigration, for the moment, food handlers should have health check and clearance requirements.

This is pretty disgusting.

Did the originator have a Hispanic last name?