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ND: New Town to test students for tuberculosis

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Source: http://bismarcktribune.com/news/sta...cle_db74f36d-8f02-52ad-95fd-b99afd75e6fd.html

New Town to test students for tuberculosis
32 minutes ago ? By Lauren Donovan

New Town Public School started the new year with the unsettling news that a student tested positive for active tuberculosis, setting off an emergency message to parents that all students in grades six through 12 should be skin tested on Friday.

Children who attend daycare in the high school also should be tested as well as staff, the message said.

Superintendent Marc Bluestone said parents were alerted by automated phone messaging Wednesday and through the school?s website that their children need a permission slip to be tested. The free test will be conducted by clinic and public health workers, who will return Monday to look for a positive or negative reaction.

Bluestone emphasized it?s important for anyone who receives the skin test Friday to be at the school Monday for the follow-up.

New Town to test students for tuberculosis
32 minutes ago ? By Lauren Donovan

New Town Public School started the new year with the unsettling news that a student tested positive for active tuberculosis, setting off an emergency message to parents that all students in grades six through 12 should be skin tested on Friday.

Children who attend daycare in the high school also should be tested as well as staff, the message said.

Superintendent Marc Bluestone said parents were alerted by automated phone messaging Wednesday and through the school?s website that their children need a permission slip to be tested. The free test will be conducted by clinic and public health workers, who will return Monday to look for a positive or negative reaction.

Bluestone emphasized it?s important for anyone who receives the skin test Friday to be at the school Monday for the follow-up...
 
Source: http://www.valleynewslive.com/home/...-Confirmed-in-Mountrail-County-287830951.html
Active Tuberculosis Case Confirmed in Mountrail County
Posted: Wed 2:53 PM, Jan 07, 2015
By: Gretchen Hjelmstad

The North Dakota Department of Health is working with school and health providers to provide free tuberculosis (TB) testing after someone in Mountrail County was diagnosed with active Tuberculosis.

The department says it is a serious, but treatable, disease that is only infectious in the "active" state. It is not spread easily, but can be spread if an infected person coughs or sneezes in close contact with someone else...
 
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