Public Health/Texas

Army Calls Navy To Test 50 for TB at Texas Army Depot

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, March 20th, 1995

The U.S. Army Depot in Corpus Christi, Texas, called in the Navy after an employee was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) in February 1995, according to locally published reports.

The local City-County Health Department would have been unable to test army depot employees for another week, so the depot commander, Colonel David Fowler, contacted medical officials at the U.S. Navy to test the estimated 50 employees who may have been exposed.

The employee, whose name was not released, was recently diagnosed with TB and informed his supervisors, who called the local health department, said Fowler. The man had not been at work since January 1995 and was on...

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