Missouri: TB Testing at School Shows No New Positive Results

St. Charles County Health Director Gil Copley announced Friday afternoon that skin testing of students and employees at Daniel Boone Elementary School in New Melle produced no new positive results for TB. County health officials learned on Jan. 4 that a person associated with the school had a case of active TB and was around the students between October and November. They have not identified the patient. After an investigation, health officials tested 24 students and two teachers in one fifth grade class on Jan. 22. One student tested positive, prompting testing for everyone in the school: about 455 students, 50 employees and five high school students who were in the school as teacher aides or cadets. All persons who were tested will be offered the test again on March 5.

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