Outbreaks (TB)

Health Officials Blamed for California High School Outbreak

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, February 16th, 1998

An 1993 outbreak of drug-resistant tuberculosis at a California high school might not have occurred if health officials had been more vigilant in following prevention and control procedures, according to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report.

The CDC investigation found that the source case for the outbreak remained infectious for almost two and a half years.

"Numerous opportunities were missed to prevent and control this outbreak," Renee Ridzon and colleagues from the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination wrote ("Outbreak of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis with Second-Generation...

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