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ensure accuracy. Tuberculosis in the Workplace exposure to
tuberculosis has a close connection to the risk of tuberculosis
in the surrounding community. Those responsible for occupational
health programs cooperate with those responsible for public
health programs to track and prevent the transmission of
tuberculosis. The committee draws a parallel between the
circumstances facing workplace tuberculosis control programs and
the circumstances described in the recent IOM report Ending
Neglect: The Elimination of Tuberculosis in the United States
(IOM, ). That report attributed the resurgence in tuberculosis
in the mid-1980s to the complacency that followed the
introduction and spread of effective treatment beginning around
1950. Complacency led to neglect of basic public health measures
including surveillance, contact tracing, outbr