A good family friend caught abdominal TB while abroad, came back to Canada, and was terribly misdiagnosed. TB is very rare here; abdominal TB even more so, and

A good family friend caught abdominal TB while abroad, came back to Canada, and was terribly misdiagnosed. TB is very rare here; abdominal TB even more so, and early symptoms look like a lot of other diseases. It took several hospital visits before the doctors realized the actual problem. He very nearly died, and spent nearly a year in the hospital recovering from a parade of complications.