Tuberculosis

Health workers busy giving TB tests

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, July 13th, 2004

Health workers were busy June 21, 2004, during the first round of tuberculosis testing for people who may have been exposed to TB by a nurse who died of the disease earlier this month in Chesapeake, Virginia.

About 65 people were given TB skin tests in the first hour and a half of testing at Oscar F. Smith High School.

Anyone who is confirmed to have been infected with TB will be treated. Health officials don't expect anyone infected by the nurse to have the contagious, active form of the disease. Deaths from active TB are rare in the United States.

The testing is largely aimed at people who were patients in a medical surgical...

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