FLORIDA: Tests Find No New Active TB Cases at School

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FLORIDA: Tests Find No New Active TB Cases at School

St. Petersburg Times (11.13.09) - Monday, November 16, 2009

TB testing of about 300 students and staff at Plant City High School, undertaken after one student was found to have an active case, has identified no one else with the active form of the disease. Eight persons were found to carry the latent form of the disease, which was "well under what we actually expected," said Steve Huard, a spokesperson for the Hillsborough County Health Department. "That just means they've been exposed to tuberculosis at some point in their life, and they may be carrying the germ. But it's not active, and none of those would actually be infectious." The initial patient was isolated and is expected to recover fully.
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