Tuberculosis

Kansas prisoner possibly infected scores with tuberculosis

Published in Tuberculosis Week, September 6th, 2004

A report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that for 9 months in 2002, a Kansas man passed through 3 county jails and a state prison before officials diagnosed him with the infectious lung disease tuberculosis.

Of the 318 people that health care workers determined the prisoner had contact with, 47 tested positive for the disease and 60 couldn't be found or refused to be tested.

State and federal officials cautioned that they cannot confirm that those who tested positive were infected by the inmate, but they are using the case to impress on other states and counties how quickly tuberculosis can spread in the close...

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Source: Tuberculosis Week (2004-09-06)

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