Fed: TB Identified as a Risk of Boxing

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Fed: TB Identified as a Risk of Boxing

Australian Associated Press (aap.com.au) (12/10/00)

A new report in the Medical Journal of Australia reveals what appears to be the first case of a prisoner acquiring tuberculosis (TB) from his sparring partner while boxing. In a letter to the journal, Dr. Michael Levy, head of population health at Sydney's Correction Health Service, and Craig Gater, health services manager at Australian Correctional Management in Junee, describe the case of the 34-year-old inmate who had been in "cheek-to-cheek" contact with another prisoner for nearly three months while boxing. Dr. Levy noted, "It's not just the close contact but blows to the stomach causing forced expiration which we think contributed to the transmission." While Dr. Levy admitted that boxing is probably not a key cause of TB transmission, he suggested it could be a minor source of diagnoses among young male adults.
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