Woman dies after TB 'spread in local pub'
A GRANDMA has died of TB “spread in a local pub” triggering hundreds of people to be tested for the bacterial infection.Margaret Pegler, 64, died and at least 29 people have become infected with TB in a tiny villagePublic Health Wales said anyone who had visited the pub in the last 13 years should get checkedNow anyone who has been in the village pub - the Joiners Arms in Llwynhendy, Camarthenshire - over the past 13 years is being told to go for an urgent screening for tuberculosis.
She fell ill last June after suffering a persistent cough and night sweats but doctors failed to immediately identify her condition as tuberculosis. Her daughter Joanna, 43, said: "She should never have gone. She should never have died ever - not from that."Joanna said: "We have put a complaint into the hospital. We want answers from it all."Shaun Greaney, who lives in Llwynhendy, said he was "concerned" the community didn't know about the outbreak sooner.
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