TB

One of the requirements of many health care workers, such as myself, is to get yearly TB tests. On the website eMedicineHealth.com, there is a section that specifies who is at the highest risk for catching it:

Risk factors for TB include the following:

* HIV infection

* Low socioeconomic status

* Alcoholism

* Homelessness

* Crowded living conditions

* Diseases that weaken the immune system

* Migration from a country with a high number of cases

* Health care workers


It's the last risk factor that really worries me.

However, I have a feeling that people may have a bone to pick with several of these risk factors, such as "alcoholism" and "low socioeconomic status". The way in which they have been listed, with a derth of circumstantial information, may lead to misunderstandings.