This has stopped for most people.....you are only offered it depending on what sort of area you live in! The new programme was introduced in September this year, although we found out in February when we had Alfie.
"The World Health Organization estimates one person is infected with TB every second. It kills two million people annually, mainly in poorer nations. Although cases of TB have grown in recent years in the UK, these have mainly been concentrated in immigrant groups and the homeless.
In England, there were more than 6,000 people diagnosed with the disease in 2002 - up 25% over the last decade.
There are also around 350 deaths from TB each year in England. But TB rates in the white population have been falling, and evidence suggests that schoolchildren are at lowest risk".
That was taken from the BBC website............the whole article is below:
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4655355.stm