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Originally Posted by Wally86
It's not all that rare. I test positive for TB (long story) so I can't even get the test. It's just a chest Xray and voila.
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I don't test positive, I break out in hives from the "prick test" but the test itself is negative, happened on two occasions.
I had to get a medical waiver at work since it is required annually, after I refused to take it again, and they didn't want to pay for the more expensive xrays annually. I told them they could fire me if they want but I wasn't going to willingly take a test that I knew caused me to have an allergic reaction, and they had failed to document it when informed and had witnessed both times it happened.
We settled in one xray test and future years me certifying I had not been exposed. Given I'm not a front line caregiver it wasn't a big deal. This year (7 years after the above) they have now dropped the test for anyone not directly involved in patient care.