Tuberculosis in migrant processing centre

[surreysarah]

I was rather alarmed to read this bit about tuberculosis at a migrant processing centre in Essex:

We were also shown the NHS medical facility within the site, with doctors and nurses available to residents.
A number of arrivals, we were told, had active tuberculosis and that up to 20 per cent have been diagnosed with latent TB.
That distinction matters. Latent TB is not infectious in the way active pulmonary TB can be. But for one in five residents to be carrying latent TB is certainly something the public is entitled to know about.
In addition, some people arrive suffering from scabies, something the medical staff take extremely seriously because of how readily it can spread in communal accommodation.

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16076797/asylum-centre-holiday-camp-Wethersfield-former-RAF-base.html

Should we worry that TB and scabies could spread into the wider community, or is it easily treated/containable?

Its not really easily treatable, Treatable yes. Easy - no. its months of antibiotics that make you very ill and have to be taken precisely. My grandmother died in her 60’s essentially from the complications of pulmonary tb. She had 30% lung function. It’s VERY disingenuous to say there is nothing to worry about.