This survey, commissioned by the London Assembly Health Committee, found that one in five Londoners (18%) said that they don’t know what the symptoms of TB are, when presented with a list.
- Over half of respondents (56%) thought TB was transmitted through spitting – untrue, yet widely believed;
- Astonishingly, 17 per cent of survey respondents thought that TB can be transmitted through unprotected sex;
- More than two in five (43%) agreed that they would be worried if they had to to tell their employer they had TB.