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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• News Briefs
Alabama: 11 Test Positive for TB; Student-Teacher May Have Infected ThemApril 29, 2002 Seven students, a teacher and three workers at Blount High School in Prichard, Ala., who tested positive for TB were possibly infected by a 25-year old teacher trainee who taught at the school last fall. The 11 people associated with the school were put on a six-month regimen of antibiotics and will be given more tests, said Joe Jablecki, the Mobile County Health Department (MCHD) official in charge of TB control. The teacher trainee had twice been misdiagnosed as having pneumonia before a physician last month gave her a TB skin test. About 160 people at the school underwent skin tests administered last week by MCHD.
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Back to other CDC news for April 29, 2002 Associated Press 04.27.02 This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update. |
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