Good point, BG- I was talking to a respiratory therapist the other day, and she said that we've seen an average of 5% of patients coming into JHH with TB- it was 4.2% last year, and 4.0% the year before that.

Although we are a large city hospital, we don't see many immigrants, but since people in Baltimore tend to live very close to each other in somewhat unsanitary conditions, infection rates are probably sky rocketing- I got a TB titer the other day from one of the ED docs, and it's been 24 hours- no redness or vesicle, so at least I'm in the clear from that!