Three More Iowa City Students Test Positive for TB

Three more Iowa City, Iowa, students have tested positive for TB, bringing the number of students who had positive skin tests after coming in close contact with an ill student at West High School up to 10. The Johnson County Health Department conducted follow-up testing at the school, including retesting 123 of the original 293 people identified as having close contact with the ill student. The three who tested positive had tested negative in an earlier test, said Kot Flora, disease prevention manager for the county. Health officials now want to retest everyone who took that first round of tests, said Flora. Only the original student was diagnosed with active TB, and she has been receiving treatment for a couple of months, officials said.

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