Infectious Diseases: New War Against TB

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In some cases, the doorbell ringers had to use persuasion. One elderly woman rolled her sleeve up three times and down twice, muttering, "I'm kinda dubious about this." More typical was the reaction of a grandmother, who felt the tines' brief, sharp pinch and exclaimed: "Goodness, is that all there is to it?" At week's end the volunteers were making the rounds again, checking for enlarged red spots at the tine test sites. And a crew of cameramen was making a movie of the whole campaign, to be used across the country in an effort to get other towns to unite to finally wipe out TB.